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" No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. "

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Marquis de Lafayette

" Do what you fear and fear disappears. "

David Joseph Schwartz

" To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. "

" I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. "

" When a match has equal partners then I fear not. "

" I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened. "

" I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. "

" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

" I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends. "

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

Florence Nightingale

" Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. "

" The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. "

" Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? "

" So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "

" I learned a priceless lesson and one that everyone can use today - it's never the amount of money we have or haven't; it's always the amount of fear we have to wrestle with to make it through the day. "

Sarah Ban Breathnach

" People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. "

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

" My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself. "

John Cassavetes

" I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. "

" The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. "

" 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

" 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

" Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. "

Bertrand Russell

" When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless as it seems. It's a way to silence someone, but also it's a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension. "

" Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. "

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