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Only your mind can produce fear.
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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.
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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
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Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.
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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
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Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.
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A fighter has to know fear.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
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Fear is the biggest motivator.
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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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He without fear is king of the world.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Fear guides more than gratitude.
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
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Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that