Definition of Fear
Fear
Fear


Definition/Meaning
(noun)
An emotional response to a perceived threat or danger.

e.g. The child's fear of spiders made her scream loudly.

(verb)
to be afraid or scared of/about someone or something;

e.g. She fears that she will get lost in the city if she ventures alone.



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  • "Action conquers fear." -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

  • "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain

  • "Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear." -- Brian Tracy

  • "Fear defeats more people than anything in the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Fear lives in the head. Courage lives in the heart." -- Louise Penny

  • "Think continually about what you want, not about the things you fear." -- Brian Tracy

  • "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." -- Leslie Calvin Brown

  • "Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage." -- Amelia Mary Earhart

  • "When you summon the courage to travel to the center of your fear, you often find that there is nothing there." -- Deborah Rosado Shaw



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