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" The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. "

William Jennings Bryan

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" When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. "

" The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. "

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" You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. "

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" A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. "

" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence. "

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" God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally. "

Emily Dickinson

" There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. "

" People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia. "

" An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. "

Glenn Greenwald

" Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. "

Fernando Flores

" What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. "

" It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. "

" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'. "

Margrethe Vestager

" Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. "

Michael O'Donoghue

" I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. "

" If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. "

Katharine Butler Hathaway

" I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. "

" I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care. "

Mark Billingham

" Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. "

" I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. "

" Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking. "

" I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. "

" The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure. "

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" A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. "

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