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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine on fear

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene on fear

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire on fear

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy on fear

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley on fear

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey on fear

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway on fear

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato on fear

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver on fear

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato on fear

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell on fear

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken on fear

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on fear

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp on fear

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 on fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie on fear

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth on fear

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley on fear