He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. – French Proverb
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain
Fear insults courage. – Terri Guillemets
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. – Donald Dowes
I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. – Lady Bird Johnson
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Jim Morrison
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment. – Chanakya
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. – Marianne Williamson
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. – Thomas Carlyle
True nobility is exempt from fear. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. – Michel de Montaigne
He that hopes no good fears no ill. – Thomas Fuller
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. – Anatole France
