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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fear is excitement without breath.
Robert Heller

We all fear what we don’t know-it’s natural.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.
Anonymous

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Edward Morgan Forster

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Dostoyevsky

I can stand what I know. It’s what I don’t know that frightens me.
Frances Newton

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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
Mary Lyon

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Jung

Never fear growing old; there are many who have never had the privilege.
Anonymous

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
Cardinal de Retz

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Frank Smith

Fear has a smell, as Love does.
Margaret Atwood

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
H.P. Lovecraft

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will !
Anonymous

Fear is the prison of the heart.
Anonymous

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
Arab Proverb

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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