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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Douglas Horton on fear

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
Steven Seagal on fear

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden on fear

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia on fear

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Bell Hooks on fear

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman on fear

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Hugh Jackman on fear

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
Hugh Jackman on fear

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.
Stevie Nicks on fear

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad on fear

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael on fear

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on fear

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Isabel Allende on fear

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable on fear

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran on fear

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran on fear

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson on fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson on fear

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
T. E. Lawrence on fear

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Conan O'Brien on fear