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
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.
~ William Wordsworth
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
~ Anonymous
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
~ Samuel Butler
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
~ Bertrand A. Russell
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
~ Sophie Tunnell
Fear is the start of wisdom.
~ Miguel De Unamuno
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~ Arnold Glasow
Fear is the highest fence.
~ Dudley Nichols
Fear is uncertainty.
~ Eric Hoffer
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus
I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.
~ Joan Of Arc
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
~ Virgil
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
~ Mary Bateson
Fear could never make a virtue.
~ Voltaire
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
~ Gertrude Stein
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
~ Sa'di
Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem the bull is bigger than all other problems. Of course I have fear but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.
~ Cristina Sanchez
Fear is stronger than arms.
~ Aeschylus
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
~ Miguel De Cervantes
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
~ Phillip Mann
Better a fearful end than fear without end.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
~ Charles Péguy
There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
~ General George S. Patton
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
~ A. E. Housman
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
~ Audre Lorde
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
~ Elizabeth Goudge