Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
~ James F. Bell
A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
~ George Matthew Adams
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
~ Pauline Rose Chance
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
~ Sophocles
I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
~ Bible
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
~ Epicurus
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
~ Allen Klein
Humor acts to relieve fear.
~ Dr. William F. Fry
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
~ Jean Kerr
Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
~ Hannah Arendt
Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
~ Lois Korey
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
~ Thomas Bernhard
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.
~ Julia Sorel
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
~ Thomas Fuller
Fear drives you and makes you better.
~ Donna E. Shalala
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
In order to feel anything you need strength.
~ Anna Maria Ortese
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
~ Aeschylus
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Fear is a fine spur.
~ Irish Proverb
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness because illness contains information our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.
~ Richard Halverson
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
~ John Witherspoon
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
~ Louis L'amour
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
~ Mike Nichols
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
~ Allen H. Neuharth
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
~ O. J. Simpson
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
~ Henry H. Tweedy
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
~ James Hastings
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
~ Henry Link
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
~ John Locke
