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Sell also: awe, care, concern, dread, fright, revere, reverence, venerate, veneration

Definitions and meanings of word "fear"

• Noun: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

• Noun: an anxious feeling; examples: "care had aged him", "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

• Noun: a profound emotion inspired by a deity; example: "the fear of God"

• Verb: be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event; example: "I fear she might get aggressive"

• Verb: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; examples: "I fear the winters in Moscow", "We should not fear the Communists!"

• Verb: be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; example: "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"

• Verb: be uneasy or apprehensive about; example: "I fear the results of the final exams"

• Verb: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; examples: "Fear God as your father", "We venerate genius"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "fear"

Bertrand Russell
8 quotes about fear
British Philosopher, Critic, Historian, Mathematician
Saturday 18 May 1872 - Monday 2 February 1970
Dale Carnegie
6 quotes about fear
American Writer, Lecturer
Saturday 24 November 1888 - Tuesday 1 November 1955
Natan Sharansky
8 quotes about fear
Russian Writer
Born Tuesday 20 January 1948
Mark Twain
3 quotes about fear
American Author
Monday 30 November 1835 - Thursday 21 April 1910
Jim Morrison
4 quotes about fear
American Writer, Poet, Musician, Composer, Songwriter
Wednesday 8 December 1943 - Saturday 3 July 1971
Thomas Jefferson
6 quotes about fear
American President, Author
Saturday 13 April 1743 - Tuesday 4 July 1826
Cyril Connolly
5 quotes about fear
English Writer, Critic, Journalist, Editor
Thursday 10 September 1903 - Tuesday 26 November 1974
Jerome Cady
3 quotes about fear
American Writer
Saturday 15 August 1903 - Sunday 7 November 1948
Aristotle
5 quotes about fear
Greek Philosopher
384 B.C. - 322 B.C.
George S. Patton
5 quotes about fear
American Soldier
Wednesday 11 November 1885 - Friday 21 December 1945
Mahatma Gandhi
4 quotes about fear
Indian Leader
Saturday 2 October 1869 - Friday 30 January 1948
Shirin Ebadi
one quote about fear
Iranian Activist, Lawyer, Judge
Born Saturday 21 June 1947

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Shirin Ebadi

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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: fear, comes, two, packages, failure, sometimes, success
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: fear, love, life, already, three, parts, dead
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: perpetual, dread, fear, shapes, face, brave, man
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Shirin Ebadi

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Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: why, people, things, fear, may, contains, information, something, interesting, get, other, side
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: fear, burglars, being, robbed, also, sudden, unexpected, clutch, darkness
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: fear, God, next, mostly
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Shirin Ebadi

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: men, fear, death, children, dark, natural, increased, tales, other
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: fear, Satan, half
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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

Shirin Ebadi

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I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: tendency, sabotage, relationships, fear, success, failure, being, afraid, useless, thoughts
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

Shirin Ebadi

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I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

Shirin Ebadi

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: courage, resistance, fear, mastery, absence
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: reverence, fear, everywhere, presumably, wider, extension
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: morals, begins, fear, usually, ends, wickedness, religion, fanaticism, either, principle, motive, beginning, all, evil
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: expose, deepest, fear, after, power, freedom, shrinks, vanishes, free
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To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Shirin Ebadi

Words: overcome, fear, Heres, all, realize, action, anyway
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