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" It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. "

Georges Bernanos

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" Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything. "

" The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. "

" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" 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. "

" The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless. "

" If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. "

" In time we hate that which we often fear. "

William Shakespeare

" Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. "

" Fear is the mother of morality. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me. "

" True nobility is exempt from fear. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? "

Mary Manin Morrissey

" I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. "

" I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes. "

" I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator. "

" It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. "

" My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.' "

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" Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. "

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

" Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. "

" Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. "

" Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable. "

" 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

" You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. "

" Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. "

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

" It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like. "

" I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. "