Life Quotes... Fear

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
                                                Ambrose Redmoon

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
                                                Bertrand Russell

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
                                                Bertrand Russell

“Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.”
                                                Cyril Connolly

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
                                                Frank Herbert

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
                                                Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To defend one’s self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.”
                                                James Baldwin

“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.”
                                                Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.”
                                                Jean Toomer

“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
                                                Marshal Ferdinand Foch

“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”
                                                Michael Pritchard

“Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.”
                                                William Shakespeare

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