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.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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.
Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.
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.
There is only one universal passion fear.
Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.
Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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.
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.
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
My greatest fear is getting bored.
I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
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.
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