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FEAR: I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown source)
FEAR: Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. (Unknown Source)
FEAR: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And LOW, no one was there! (Unknown source)
FEAR: Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)
FEAR: Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. (German proverb)
FEAR: Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
FEAR: As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer, U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)
FEAR: How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. (Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)
FEAR: We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
FEAR: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)
FEAR: Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie, Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, 1867-1934)
FEAR: Sometimes what you fear the most is the very thing that will set you free. (Robert Tew)
FEAR: Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. (Malaysian proverb)
FEAR: To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)
FEAR: Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie, Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, 1867-1934)
FEAR: To learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
FEAR: The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)
FEAR: Fear to let fall a drop, and you spill a lot. (Malay proverb)
FEAR: Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
FEAR: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, Fear of Flying, that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)
FEAR: From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. (Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, know above all for his widely read fables, 1621-1695)
FEAR: He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. (Chinese proverb)
FEAR: Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan Behan, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)
FEAR: When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. Clement Stone, U.S. businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author, 1902-1002)
FEAR: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. (Unknown source)
FEAR: Fear is faith that it won't work out. (Unknown source)
FEAR: Fear is the absence of faith. (Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)