The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie
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 Overstreet
When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
~ Jean Craighead George
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
~ Edward R. Murrow
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
~ Mark Rutherford
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
~ Federico Fellini
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
