Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

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"Fear is the enemy of progress and the thief of dreams."
Booth Tarkington
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"Fear dissolves in the face of determined action."
Booth Tarkington
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"Fear is the primary tool used to maintain systems of control and exploitation."
Upton Sinclair
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"Fear is often just ignorance wearing a disguise."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Fear is the mother of all superstition."
Sherwood Anderson
"Face your fears and they lose their power."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Fear is the thief of joy; courage is the guardian of happiness."
O. Henry
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Booth Tarkington
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"The fear of change is often greater than the change itself."
Upton Sinclair
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"The fear of the wolf is the beginning of wisdom."
Jack London
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"Fear is the greatest obstacle to human progress."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."
O. Henry
"I have a kind of fear when I think of the future of my country."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Fear is the enemy of progress and the friend of stagnation."
Booth Tarkington
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"I am not afraid of the dark; I have danced with many shadows."
Jack London
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"Anxiety is the price which one pays for defying the gods."
T.S. Eliot
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"There is the fear which precedes wisdom and that which follows understanding."
T.S. Eliot
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"Fear in a handful of dust represents our deepest anxieties."
T.S. Eliot
"Fear builds walls that imagination can break through."
Sherwood Anderson
"Fear is the price we pay for caring deeply."
Sherwood Anderson
"We fear not what we know but what we might discover."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Fear is a sign of weakness that must be overcome."
Ezra Pound
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"Fear is just a feeling, not a fact."
Gertrude Stein
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"Fear is the enemy of progress and the friend of stagnation."
Booth Tarkington
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"Fear is the prison that keeps the soul from soaring."
Booth Tarkington
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"Fear is the root of evil."
Robert Frost
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"Fear in a handful of dust."
T.S. Eliot
"Fear is the prison we build for ourselves."
Sherwood Anderson
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"What we fear most often shapes us more than what we love."
Booth Tarkington
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"To fear the truth is to fear oneself."
Upton Sinclair