A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All we have to fear is fear itself.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?

Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.

When desire dies, fear is born.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

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.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.