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Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Camille Claudel

Sculptor · French · 1864 – 1943

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

Flannery O'Connor

Author · American · 1925 – 1964

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Poet · French · 1621 – 1695

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Leon Kass

Educator · American · b. 1939

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Stanislav Grof

Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet · English · 1772 – 1834

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

Writer · American · 1949 – 2000

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

Novelist · American · b. 1936

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

James A. Michener

Novelist · American · 1907 – 1997

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Charles de Montesquieu

Philosopher · French · 1689 – 1755

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

Newt Gingrich

Politician · American · b. 1943

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Author · American · 1902 – 1968

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Joseph Heller

Novelist · American · 1923 – 1999

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

Moshe Sharett

Statesman · Israeli · 1894 – 1965

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Julius Rosenberg

Criminal · American · 1918 – 1953

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

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Politician · Canadian · 1874 – 1950

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar

Leader · Roman

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Novelist · American · b. 1949

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Bill Gates

Businessman · American · b. 1955

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Cyril Connolly

Journalist · English · 1903 – 1974

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Oliver Stone

Director · American · b. 1946

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Abu Bakr

Statesman · Saudi Arabian

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

Darren Aronofsky

Director · American · b. 1969

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Author · Swiss · 1921 – 1990

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

Abu Bakr

Statesman · Saudi Arabian

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher · 1632 – 1677

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

Historian · Roman

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist · Russian · 1821 – 1881

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Douglas Hurd

Politician · British · b. 1930

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

Wellington Mara

Businessman · American · 1916 – 2005

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Roald Dahl

Novelist · British · 1916 – 1990

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Samuel Butler

Poet · British · 1835 – 1902

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Soldier · 1820 – 1891

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