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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Christopher Columbus

Explorer · Italian

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Mary Harris Jones

Activist · American · 1837 – 1930

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger

Critic · American · 1904 – 1980

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

Soldier · American · 1885 – 1945

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

Soldier · American · 1880 – 1964

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

George Murray

Poet · Canadian

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

Novelist · Italian · b. 1932

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Arianna Huffington

Journalist · American · b. 1950

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Statesman · Roman

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Milan Kundera

Writer · Czechoslovakian · b. 1929

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

Michael O'Donoghue

Writer · American · 1940 – 1994

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Poet · English · 1631 – 1700

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Scientist · American

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Tsongas

Politician · American · 1941 – 1997

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Alfred Hitchcock

Director · English · 1899 – 1980

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Calvin Klein

Designer · American · b. 1942

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Amy Tan

Novelist · American · b. 1952

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

Author

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

Poet · Iranian

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Poet · American

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Douglas MacArthur

Soldier · American · 1880 – 1964

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

David Brainerd

Clergyman · American

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

John Lubbock

Statesman · British · 1834 – 1913

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Anne Rice

Novelist · American · b. 1941

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

Carly Fiorina

Businessman · American · b. 1954

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Phillip E. Johnson

Educator · American

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

Eliot Engel

Politician · American · b. 1947

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

William John Wills

Scientist · English

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Trip Hawkins

Businessman · American · b. 1953

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Dan Rather

Journalist · American · b. 1931

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

W. Edwards Deming

Scientist · American · 1900 – 1993

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

James Lane Allen

Author · American · 1849 – 1925

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Robert Anton Wilson

Writer · American · b. 1932

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

George Weinberg

Psychologist · American

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

Poet · English · 1572 – 1637

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

John Cheever

Writer · American · 1912 – 1982

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

Novelist · English · b. 1923

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Brendan Francis

Playwright

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

John Mason Brown

Critic · American · b. 1900

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