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  • As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

    Children   Fear   Example  
    Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.53, Ballantine Books
  • Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

    Fear   Real   Believe  
  • The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.

    Fear   Decision   Made  
  • We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

    Fear   Suffering   Danger  
  • Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

    Fear   Thinking   Growth  
  • Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

    Fear   Lying   Believe  
    'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4
  • Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

    Truth   Fear   Men  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.367
  • Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

    Fear   Moving   Home  
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books
  • After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

    Fear   Next   Grudge  
  • Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

    Death   Fear   Knows  
    'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1
  • We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

    Courage   Fear   Taught  
    John McCain, Mark Salter (2004). “Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life”, p.9, Random House
  • Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

    Success   Fear   People  
  • Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

    Faith   Powerful   Fear  
  • Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

    Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.39, e-artnow
  • FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin
  • He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

    Kings   Powerful   Fear  
    Eric Rücker Eddison (1952). “The worm Ouroboros: a romance”, Del Rey
  • To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

  • Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

    Fear   Moving   Men  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  • There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”
  • Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

    Fear   Order   Needs  
  • These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

    Motivation   Fear   Years  
  • A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

    Kings   Fear   Scorpions  
    Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd
  • Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

  • The mark of fear is not easily removed.

    Fear   Mark  
    "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman".
  • Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  • Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

    Fear   Risk   Trying  
  • The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

    "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.
  • My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

    Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.
  • Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.

    Sex   Fear   Buttons  
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