Never fear failure; it’s the stepping stone to greatness.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
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.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
We fear the thing we want the most.
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
Let them hate so long as they fear
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.