Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

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.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I say I am stronger than fear.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I have a fear of being boring.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.