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You don’t face your fears, you stand up to them.
Anonymous

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there.
Donna A. Favors

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold Glasow

Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Donald Dowes

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
James de Mille

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Anonymous

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy Thompson

Fear breeds fear.
Byron Janis

We fear the thing we want the most.
Dr. Robert Anthony

Fear lent wings to his feet.
Virgil

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one’s fears.
Ann Radcliffe

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Bible

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
Brendan Francis

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
Sophie Tunnell

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Henry David Thoreau

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. Lewis

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)

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