Quotes on Fear

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.