• The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

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  Jean-Luc Godard

  AuthorFrench1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 139 reads

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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.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.3 · 36 votes · 172 reads

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• There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 102 reads

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 78 reads

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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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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 145 reads

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• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 119 reads

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• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 106 reads

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• There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.8 · 11 votes · 121 reads

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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.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 141 reads

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• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 19 votes · 45 reads

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• To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 15 votes · 178 reads

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• To him who is in fear everything rustles.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.4 · 56 votes · 8 reads

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 6 votes · 125 reads

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 55 votes · 69 reads

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• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 49 reads

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• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 21 reads

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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.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 38 votes · 194 reads

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 180 reads

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• Where the fear is, happiness is not.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 55 votes · 124 reads

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• You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 76 reads

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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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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you thi

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 55 reads

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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.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 146 reads

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• You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 110 reads

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