1. A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
2. A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation, is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~George Matthew Adams
3. Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender
4. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~Henry James
5. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ~Bertrand Russell
6. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. ~Don Miguel Ruiz
7. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. ~H. Jackson Browne
9. Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis
10. Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes
11. Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan
12. Fear dances with courage. ~Ever Garrison
13. Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ~Dorothy Thompson
14. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~Ruth Gendler
15. Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif
16. Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell
17. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ~Hannah Arendt
18. Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky
19. Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Unknown
20. Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. ~Aung San Suu Kyi
21. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler
22. Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy
23. Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols
24. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow
25. 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
26. Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings
27. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine
28. Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
29. Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli
30. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ~Thomas Hobbes
32. Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson
33. Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown
34. Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Unknown
35. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
37. He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
38. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. ~William Allen White
39. 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
40. 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. ~Rosa Parks
41. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. ~Thomas Jefferson
42. I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
43. If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas
44. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius
45. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott
46. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
48. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber
49. Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis
50. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie
51. Obstacles are like wild animals; they are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden
52. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~Dorothy Thompson
53. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ~Marianne Williamson
54. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ~Jane Addams
55. Our fear often prevents us from being open to new connections. We become afraid that we will lose our capacity if we open our organization to new and different members, or if we reveal anything to those we have labelled as competitors. But these are just futile attempts to hold the world still, to stop its cohering motions. In fear, we stop the energy available to us. We choose control over effectiveness. ~Margaret Wheatley
56. Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins
57. People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anais Nin
58. Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. ~Bonaro W. Overstreet
59. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ~Thomas Jefferson
60. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf
61. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. ~Anne Frank
62. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken
63. The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson
64. The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833
65. There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain
66. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ~Aeschylus
67. There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide
68. There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton
69. There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp
70. There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ~Dorothy Thompson
71. Those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~Bertrand Russell
72. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell
73. To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
74. To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs
75. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. ~James F. Bymes
76. Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. ~Marilyn Ferguson
77. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. ~Henry David Thoreau
78. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill
79. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish proverb
80. You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
81. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. ~Pearl S. Buck
82. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt