"Fear comes with imagination. It's a penalty; it's the price of imagination." ~ Thomas Harris
I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it. ~ Diane Keaton, Ladies Home Journal, 1/04
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. ~ Dale Carnegie, Greatest Book In Your Life
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t. ~ Henry Ford, Wisdom for the Soul
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F. Bell
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is quite small. ~ Ruth Gendler
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. ~ F.H. Bradley
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear always springs from ignorance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let yourself be paralyzed by fear, which prevents so many people from living out their dreams. ~ Mark Fisher
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ~ H. P. Lovecraft
The only thing to fear is fearlessness. ~ Michael Stipe
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ Aristotle
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled. ~ Karl Jaspers, 1,001 Pearls of Buddhist Wisdom