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Jai Ganesh

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Fear Quotes

Fear Quotes

1. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali

3. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. - Chanakya

4. It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5. Fear makes us feel our humanity. - Benjamin Disraeli

6. What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

7. 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

8. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain

9. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

10. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

11. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

13. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell

14. Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. - Michael Jordan

15. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Swami Vivekananda

16. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi

17. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein

18. Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. - Napoleon Bonaparte

19. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke

20. Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

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