Do one thing every day that scares you.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
-Nelson Mandela
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
-Frank Herbert
Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it.
-Salvator Dali
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live
-Marcus Aurelius
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
-Japanese Proverb
If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you.
-Lao Tzu
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
-Thomas Jefferson
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
-Niccolò Machiavelli
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared
-Niccolò Machiavelli
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
-Harry S. Truman
People react to fear, not love. They don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.
-Richard Nixon
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-Isaac Asimov
