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" There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. "

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" Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them. "

" I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there. "

" There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. "

" Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. "

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Power

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

" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

" Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. "

" What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. "

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

" It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. "

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You

" Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. "

" I'm intimidated by the fear of being average. "

" Fear is stupid. So are regrets. "

" Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him. "

" Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. "

" He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. "

" Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. "

" What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. "

" My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not. "

" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "

" March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. "

" 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 do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

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Fear

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" We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with. "

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" Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. "

" Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. "

" We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

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