To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
~ Joseph Conrad
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
~ Ding Ling
Winners take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing but they refuse to let fear control them.
~ Nancy Simms
Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
~ Brendan Francis
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
~ William Hazlitt
If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.
~ Christian Bovee
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
~ Jean Anouilh
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
~ John Churton Collins
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage.
~ Elie Metchnikoff
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~ André Gide
When thinking won't cure fear action will.
~ W Clement Stone
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
~ André Maurois
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
~ Ty Cobb
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
~ Henry Kissinger
General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too.
~ Sherwood Anderson
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
I have found adventure in flying in world travel in business and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.
~ Frederick W Cropp
Deep faith eliminates fear.
~ Lech Walesa
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.
~ Anonymous
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
~ George Macdonald
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.
~ John Paul Jones
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fear is faith that it won't work out.
~ Sister Mary Tricky
Fear is the absence of faith.
~ Paul Tillich
Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.
~ Harold Sherman
God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear.
~ Bible
I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
~ Thomas Merton
Fear is faithlessness.
