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Quotes About Fear

There was no telling what dangers that land concealed, but it seemed to call to her.
~ John Varley
She was a nightmare quilt from hooves to eyebrows, and she was running for her life.
~ John Varley
Outwardly, she did not lack self-confidence. Only she knew how frightened and vulnerable she was beneath it all. It was her secret-one she kept so well that she fooled one of the NASA psychologists into giving her command of a ship.
~ John Varley
With a lot more courage than common sense, she stood at the back of the wagon and faced the oncoming angels. Once again, all Cirocco could see was her back as she stood between her love and approaching danger.
~ John Varley
If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it.
~ John Varley
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you.
~ John W. Gardner
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling.
~ John W. Gardner
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~ John W. Gardner
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~ John W. Gardner
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.
~ John W. Gardner
As Dr. Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1944, discovered about the German people in Nazi Germany "There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn't the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors."529
~ John W. Whitehead
Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.
~ John W. Whitehead
The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.
~ John Wain
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
~ John Wainwright
Others cowered beside their vehicles, literally losing
~ John Walker
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.
~ John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death and standing up anyway.
~ John Wayne
Courage is being completely paralyzed with fear and taking the first step anyway. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
~ John Wayne
courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
~ John Wayne
The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.
~ John Wayne Gacy
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
~ John Welwood