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Quotes About Fear

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
~ Alain de Botton
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
~ Gustav Klimt
There is no illusion great than fear.
~ Laozi
Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
~ Jay-Z
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
~ Plutarch
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
~ Sun Tzu
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
~ William Penn
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
There is nothing to fear other than my mind.
~ Shantideva
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
~ Brene Brown
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
~ Leighton Meester
Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
~ Alice Miller
The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.
~ Joel Brown
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
~ William Ralph Inge
We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
~ Sarah Dessen
Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
~ Bruce Mau