959 private quotes tagged fear

“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.” — Chanakya

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“The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.” — Ang Lee

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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.” — Duane Chapman

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“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” — Matthew Henry

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“To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” — Peter McWilliams

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“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.” — Carrie-Anne Moss

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” — Tacitus

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“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” — Max Frisch

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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.” — George W. Bush

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“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” — James Joyce

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“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.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.” — Audre Lorde

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“The strongest passion is fear.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” — J. K. Rowling

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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” — Florence Nightingale

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“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.” — Sean Connery

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“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.” — Twyla Tharp

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“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.” — Martha Beck

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