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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale on fear

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams on fear

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire on fear

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell on fear

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett on fear

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Martin Luther on fear

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach on fear

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine on fear

Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry on fear

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster on fear

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken on fear

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi on fear

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
Clint Eastwood on fear

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman on fear

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on fear

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell on fear

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 on fear

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
Mitt Romney on fear

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling on fear

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot on fear