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Frank Herbert I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear h
Charles Monroe Schulz So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself??”nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadersh
Franklin D. Roosevelt N.B.: Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Frank Herbert I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear h
Frank Herbert I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Oswald Chambers The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
Assyrian Proverb I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Blaise Pascal Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Erica Jong I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
Maya Angelou 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.
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
David Joseph Schwartz To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.
Unknown The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear
Buddha 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.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Ambrose Redmoon Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Erik H. Erikson Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mavette Sadile I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
John Donne Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Isaac Asimov I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Mark Twain Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Peter McWilliams To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Richard Milhous Nixon The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Anthony Robbins Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
J. K. Rowling Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Benjamin Franklin Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Cyril Connolly Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Franklin D. Roosevelt There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
G. Gordon Liddy They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
John Ernst Steinbeck Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Charles Monroe Schulz So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself??”nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadersh
Mark Twain Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simple
La Rochefoucauld Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
Herbert Fenstermeim The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'
George Bernard Shaw ...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the pass
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, 'Think again, bat man.'
Wallace Stevens To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know q
Milan Kundera Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
Steve Ross You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Logan Pearsall Smith To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know
Lao Tzu Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
Bertrand Russell Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Richard Jordan The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
G Gaia The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
Danish proverb To own is to fear.
Thomas Fuller Better hazard once than always be in fear.
John Dryden Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
William Cowper He has no hope who never had a fear.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear ha
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new si
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
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.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Though
"Men fear death as children fear the dark." -- Bacon
"Courage is... mastery of fear--not absence of fear." -- Twain
"Never fear answers. Only fear running out of questions." Ivanova
"The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown." -- Hamza, Nagaraja
"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them" - Asimov
"I don't fear computers. I fear the lack of them."-Azimov
"Their only fear is the fear of a green planet." * SKYCLAD
"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear." - M. Gandhi
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
"The Kzin smelled our fear!" "The Kzinti smell everyone's fear."
"Yes, Hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy"
"Freedom from Fear?" I FEAR my GOVERNMENT!
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
"Be just and fear not." (Be stoned and fear nothing!)
"If you fear God, you have no one else to fear"- Cromwell
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

 

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