Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
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Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self forged chains.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 6. When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play The swallow people; and tossed wide around O'
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.
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Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
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Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power.
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The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To hand the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth then all Americans are in peril.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
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I don't possess a lot of self confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
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