“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”
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“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.”
“I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.”
“I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.”
“I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.”
“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.”
“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.”
“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”
“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.”
“I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.”
“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.”
“Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.”
“Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.”
“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.”
“I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.”
“Fear is a huge thing for older people.”
“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.”
“More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.”
“President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.”
“I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.”
“It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.”
“Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.”
“I fear only God, all praises to Him.”
“You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.”