"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), US essayist and novelist
Subject FearJames Branch Cabell (1879-1958), US essayist and novelist
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." - Jim Morrison (1943-1971), American singer-songwriter & poet
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), US essayist and novelist
"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it ... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American lecturer and author
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British author, mathematician
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American United Nations diplomat
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks (1913-2005), American civil rights activist
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power." - John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American novelist
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon (1933-1996), American writer
"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt." - George Sewell (1924- ), Actor
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