- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
- Texans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texans fear no one.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass should join forces with them, protecting their rights while we defend our own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020