He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
~ Publilius Syrus
I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
~ Althea Gibson
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
~ Vauvenargues
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
~ Charles Baudouin
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing rather than fear of being killed was the most common cause of battle failure and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
~ S. L. A. Marshall
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
~ James Northcote
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
~ Billie Jean King
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
~ Abraham Maslow
We fear the thing we want the most.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
~ John F. Kennedy
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
~ Thomas Adams
It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.
~ Grace Hansen
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
~ Teresa Of Ávila
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
People living deeply have no fear of death.
~ Anaïs Nin
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.
~ James F. Byrnes
Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
~ William James
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A good life fears not life nor death.
~ Thomas Fuller
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
~ Spanish Proverb
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~ Erik H. Erikson
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
~ Malcolm Forbes
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
~ Epictetus
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
~ Norman Cousins
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
~ Anonymous
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
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
~ Clara Barton
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
~ Katherine Paterson
