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" 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

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" The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. "

" Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master. "

" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "

Francis of Assisi

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

" 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. "

" Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. "

" There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans. "

" If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! "

George S. Patton

" The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. "

" There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. "

" We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty. "

" It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible. "

Katherine McNamara

" To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. "

" How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. "

Florence Nightingale

" Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open. "

" Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. "

" Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. "

Thomas J. Watson

" Knight without fear and without reproach. "

Richard Harris Barham

" Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. "

Francis Quarles

" Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. "

" If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" Fear has its use but cowardice has none. "

" It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. "

Aung San Suu Kyi

" If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. "

" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "