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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. "

Mariska Hargitay

" Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. "

" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "

" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "

" None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. "

Bertrand Russell

" Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. "

" 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

" We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. "

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

" Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. "

" To the old, the new is usually bad news. "

" The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things. "

" 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. "

" If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence. "

Travis Bradberry

" Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. "

" I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out. "

" 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

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

" The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. "

John Cassavetes

" Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. "

Steven Pressfield

" The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. "

" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "

" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. "

" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "

" Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all. "

" We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. "

Hussein of Jordan

" Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. "

" When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite. "