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"In time we hate that which we often fear." -- William Shakespeare "Have a vision not clouded by fear." -- Cherokee Proverb "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." -- Lucius C. Lactantius "You can't underestimate the power of fear." -- Patricia Nixon "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." -- Edmund Burke "Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear." -- St. Theresa "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard "The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave." -- James A. LaFond-Lewis "Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson." -- Roger Craig, Former NFL All-Pro Running Back "There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear." -- Ben Johnson "What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope." -- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings "To fight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off postpone." -- David Joseph Schwartz "There are two levers for moving men: interest & fear." -- Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general "Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice." -- John McCain "To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something." -- Anonymous "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "We can't fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future's all in our heads, fear must be a head thing." -- Tom Payne "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me." -- Erica Jong "Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby." -- Ruth E. Renkei "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." -- Anonymous "One can easily understand a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when grown men and women are afraid of the light." -- Plato "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -- Bertrand Russell "There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled." -- La Bruyère