There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

17.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

18.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

20.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

21.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

22.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

24.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

25.

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

26.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

27.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

29.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

30.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

31.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

33.

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

34.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

35.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

37.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

38.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

39.

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

40.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

42.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

43.

Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

45.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

46.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

48.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

49.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

50.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.