“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” -Caroline Myss (born 1952)
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown
The Reality of Fear
You’re not scared of the dark;
You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
You’re afraid of not being lovable.
by Author Unknown
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
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“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” -Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906): “An Enemy of the People” (1882), act 5
“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
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Fear is a slinking cat I find
Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
“It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)
Heights Made Him Dizzy
There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
That gave him a view
From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!
by John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Author Unknown
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
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A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘7 September 1851’
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I have discovered that I scream the same way whether I am about to be devoured by a great white shark or a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” -Marie Curie (Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867 - 1934))
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, chapter 17
“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): “First Inaugural Address” (4 March 1933)
“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston: “The Lost Island”
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Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)
“Do what you fear and fear disappears.” -David J. Schwartz (David Joseph Schwartz, Junior (1927 - 1987))
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“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)
“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’
“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues . . . One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1
“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon: “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, Fortitudo
“Fear is nature’s warning signal to get busy.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey
14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can see what they look like, because on that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479
“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17.))
“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” -Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)): “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987)
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“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))
“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
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“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown
“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair
We are MFOL! . . . fear not, intrepid souls, for there is no shortage of humor, inspiration, and learning . . . simply continue reading . . .
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown
The Reality of Fear
You’re not scared of the dark;
You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
You’re afraid of not being lovable.
by Author Unknown
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
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“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” -Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906): “An Enemy of the People” (1882), act 5
“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
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Fear is a slinking cat I find
Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
“It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)
Heights Made Him Dizzy
There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
That gave him a view
From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!
by John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Author Unknown
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
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A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘7 September 1851’
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I have discovered that I scream the same way whether I am about to be devoured by a great white shark or a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” -Marie Curie (Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867 - 1934))
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, chapter 17
“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): “First Inaugural Address” (4 March 1933)
“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston: “The Lost Island”
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Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)
“Do what you fear and fear disappears.” -David J. Schwartz (David Joseph Schwartz, Junior (1927 - 1987))
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“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)
“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’
“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues . . . One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1
“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon: “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, Fortitudo
“Fear is nature’s warning signal to get busy.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey
14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can see what they look like, because on that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479
“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17.))
“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” -Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)): “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987)
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“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))
“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
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“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown
“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair
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