No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
When desire dies, fear is born.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.