fear quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
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"Cease to hope and you will cease to fear."
21
"Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."
28
"A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature."
33
"There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does."
142
"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don't learn to control it, it'll destroy you and everything around you."
143
"When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are."
156
"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires."
176
"Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
244
"Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance."
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"Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. As Jerry Seinfeld observed of his twenty years of dating: 'That's a lot of acting fascinated.'"
315
"The acquisition of a condition lends significance to one's existence. An illness, a cross to bear. Some people go from condition to condition; they cure one, and another pops up to take its place. The condition becomes a work of art in itself, a shadow version of the real creative act the victim is avoiding by expending so much care cultivating his condition."
316
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
409
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
418
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."
576
"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
592
"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."
617
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common."
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"What worries you masters you."
956
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have."
1066
"Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance."
1165
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
242
"Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance."
310
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
637
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
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