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 If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.  I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear. How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from. Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves. When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. Fear is met and destroyed with courage. A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation, which in itself banishes fatigue, is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear! What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. Why should a man fear, since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can, unthinking. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. - Bible Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good. - Epicurus Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening. Humor acts to relieve fear. If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying. If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achieving success. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Fear makes us feel our humanity. A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. Fear drives you and makes you better. Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. In order to feel anything, you need strength. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. A danger foreseen is half avoided. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. Fear is a fine spur. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything. It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men. Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter of him. Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Fear gives sudden instincts of skill. I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser. Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. Fear is the needle that pierces us, that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy. Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us. Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Fear is the soul's signal for rallying. Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. Fear is the start of wisdom. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Fear is the highest fence. Fear is uncertainty. Fear is sand in the machinery of life. Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. Fear betrays unworthy souls. - Virgil Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Fear could never make a virtue. - Voltaire Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. - Sa'di Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull. Fear is stronger than arms. Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies. It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear. Better a fearful end than fear without end. A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. "But" is a fence over which few leap. There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses, the other is the whispering of the higher self. Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience. Better hazard once than always be in fear. Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible. There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen. Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination. A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear. Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you. 
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