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“Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.”

“You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.”

World Way Trying Said Real Feelings Fear Ashamed

Author:William Hughes Mearns

“Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.”

Way Needs Mind Body Next Fear Your Body Allowing Reflexes

Book:The Ages of Chaos

Source: The Ages of Chaos

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”

Social Fear Relation Equity Social Relations

Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Happens Fall Evil Fear Terrible Aspect Stronger Luck Ill Dare Expected Resilience Horrible Behave Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.”

World Humans Whole Fear Personality Whole World Human Personality

Author:William Faulkner

“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”

Fear Ill

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Every day do something that frightens you.”

Fear

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.”

Two Felt Fear Sun Sky Walking Red Loud Melancholy Scream Bloody Trembling Fright Unending Piercings Two Friends Sun Set

Author:Edvard Munch

“When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?”

Reason Desire Fear Direct

Author:Juvenal

“I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.”

Fear Risk Danger Boredom Frightened

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.”

Fear Pride Victory Cherish Dread

Author:Og Mandino

“The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?”

Enough Facts Fear Inspire Pages Terror Be Good Good Enough Blank Blank Pages

Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations

“As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.”

People Dies Fear Bravery Excess Timidity

Author:Norman Mailer

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.”

Fear Prejudice Transformation

Author:Elias Canetti

“I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.”

Firsts Fear Canvas Terrified

Author:Salvador Dali

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”

House Fear Rooms Conquering Fear Living In Fear Conquer Your Fears

Author:Hafez

“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.”

Should Artist Fear Slave Details Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband”

Age Fear Lord Wife Middle Husband Accomplish Beaten Middle Ages Brides Conqueror Tokens Severity William The Conqueror

Author:Jules Michelet

“Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.”

Fear

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.”

Trying Enough Fear Rewards Be Good Rejection Good Enough Fear Of Rejection Being Good Enough Not Being Good Enough

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”

Ends Fear Seeing

Author:Guy Finley

“We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.”

Fear Our Lives Prove Gains

Book:The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Large Print 16pt)

Source: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Large Print 16pt)

“Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.”

Doe Reason Fear Understanding Secret Birth Goodness Life Changing Fearlessness

Author:Guy Finley

“Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.”

Want Humans Fear Human Beings Steps Struggle Climbs Frightened Bitterness Reeds

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.”

Evil Fear Ability Roots Stupidity Ridiculous Mortals Vain Hiding Hiding Place

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.”

Fear Overcoming Overcoming Fear

Author:Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.”

Believe Mean Might Fear Brain Situation Response Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.”

Life Is Causes Fear Sides Effects Security Importance Side Effects Personal Security

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.”

Thinking Ends Artist Fear Loses Late Terror Studios

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.”

Self Fear Perfect Claims Deceived

Author:Bill W.

“You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.”

Ends Done Fear Becoming Who You Are Circles Jumping Becoming Who You Are

Author:Paula Abdul

“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.”

Thinking May Children Matter Happens Fear Difficult Emotion Possibility Terrible Our Children Raised Your Children Dominant Probability

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.”

Fear Doubt Worst Prophet

Author:Statius

“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.”

Fear Dark Creative Danger Computer Studios Block Locked Dwelling Creative Block

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.”

Fear Fire Wings

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”

Humans Long Feelings Lasts Fear Human Nature Horror Incapable

Book:A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

“It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.”

Has Beens Made Fear Change Progress Worst Changed African American Professors Realised Things Have Changed Worst Fear

Author:Derrick Bell

“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”

World Mind Children Play Action Fear Dark Creative Fronts Concepts Adults Enormous Fearful Yards Dark World Adult Children

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”

Mind Motivational Fear Inspiring Courage Learning Wise Risk Teaching Effects Willing Confidence Resources Command Servant Insightful Boldness

Book:You Can If You Think You Can

Source: You Can If You Think You Can

“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”

Men Two Moving Motivation Fear Interest Courage Human Nature Levers

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Mean Fear President Acting Bears Gun Horse All Kinds Fighter Not Afraid Better Life Grizzlies Grizzly Bears Acting As If

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.”

World Giving Children Made Fear Hell Atheism Noble Rage Dogmatic Early Life

Book:The Training Of The Human Plant

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?”

Book Reason Use Fear Voice Atheism Listening Judgment Ill Rage Theology Reasoning Feds Fitting Babe Noisy Spectacles Babel

Author:Luther Burbank

“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.”

People Knows Men Want Should Mind Wells May Ideas Might Fear Existence Hell Atheism Conscious Concerned Scientist Universal Rage Burning Good God Conscious Mind

Author:Luther Burbank

“Don't be afraid, you can do it.”

Fear Can Do You Can Do It

Author:Steve Jobs

“A man who is afraid will do anything.”

Men Fear

Book:The story of the world: a brief account of the early days of the earth as told in letters to his daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru

Source: The story of the world: a brief account of the early days of the earth as told in letters to his daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru

“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”

Way Stills Play Might Fear Imagination Influence

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.”

Hands Fear Change Sake No Fear Have No Fear Fear Of Change

Author:Robert Moses

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