I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. - Rosa Parks
I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. - John Steinbeck
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear. - Henry Ford
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. - Seneca
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined. - Henry Ward Beecher
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - J. K. Rowling
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. - Michael Ignatieff
Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. - Max Leopold Ernst
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis
Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. - Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean. - Laurel K. Hamilton
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear. - Elbert Hubbard
Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge. - Brian Herbert & Keven J. Anderson
Our fears always outnumber our dangers. - Latin Proverb
Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong. - Tim Lebbon
Social control is best managed through fear. - Michael Crichton
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying, “Go no further.” - Anne Rice
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them. - Henry Ward Beecher
The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. - Bertrand Russell
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