Fear
Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk, real or not, or danger. It's one of the basic emotions (see emotion theory).Fear is a very powerful tool for behavior modification[?].
Quote: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
See also:
The opposite is confidence. Self-confidence is confidence in oneself, i.e. in one's abilities and worth, including the abilitiy to cope with one's limitations and problems.
Unjustified confidence can cause problems.
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make a public appearance and deliver a public speech, under
however numerous the embassy might be, one individual spoke for all;
heard, to be forced to sit and listen to a whole deputation, one after
fond of discoursing in Latin or Italian. The children of the House of
in 1455 a fluent speech before the Great Council at Venice, and his
Congress of Mantua (1459). Pius himself through all his life did much
chair. Great as he was both as scholar and diplomatist, he would
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official, ecclesiastic, physician, or court-scholar. Every other
to the reputation of the speaker, the concourse of the lovers of
and even at the consecration of new bishops, a humanist was sure to
Sapphic verses. Often a newly appointed official was himself forced to.
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