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“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“The man who fears losing has already lost.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“We can't be brave without fear.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Be not afraid of greatness.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“Laughter is poison to fear.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in a nation's life.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid.” Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book” - 1894

“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” Plato, “The Republic”

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Don't say any more about what danger I'm in, I only fear danger where I want to fear it.” Franz Kafka, “The Trial” - 1925

“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.” Richard Branson, “Screw It, Let's Do It” - 2006

“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.” William James, “The Varieties of Religious Experience” - 1902

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run.” Stephen King, “11/22/63” - 2011

“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” Terry Pratchett, “Small Gods” - 1992

“it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.” Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” - 2002

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.” Neil Gaiman, “The Graveyard Book” - 2008

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.” George MacDonald, “The Princess and the Goblin” - 1872

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