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" 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

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

Fernando Flores

" I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. "

" The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. "

Jessica Valenti

" Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. "

" It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self? "

Paramahansa Yogananda

" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

Sebastian Thrun

" When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. "

" The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. "

" 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

" I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. "

" Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. "

" Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. "

" It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. "

" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. "

Robert Benchley

" If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? "

" There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. "

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

" Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. "

" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "

" It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "

" I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. "

" 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

" I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. "

" The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. "

Daniel H. Wilson

" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell