Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.
Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.
Fear is primarily a creation of the mind. I create it in my mind-it doesn’t really exist outside the mind. I can dissolve it there as well. – John Mackey
There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.
Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
My greatest fear is getting bored.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesnt know what he is doing.
There is only one universal passion fear.
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
