We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson - "Our Deepest Fear" from her book "A Return To Love" 1994 inaugural speech.
Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
- Brian Tracy
The key to change . . . is to let go of fear.
- Rosanne Cash
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes.
In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear.
Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back
from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
- Mary Manin Morrissey author
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 its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain
- Frank Herbert - "Dune"
Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.
- Doug Firebaugh
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems,
block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
- Unknown
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
- Michel de Montaigne
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
- Brian Tracy
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
- Cherokee Proverb
We have nothing to fear but fear itself
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love is always creative, fear always destructive.
- Emmet Fox
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Eric Hoffer
How much do we lose when we fear to lose anything
- Howard J. Lancet
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
- Jacques Benigne Bossuet
A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
- Victor Hugo The Saga of the Beast
Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune
that seldom materialize are simply bad habits.
By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind
it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
- Elie Metchnikoff
Envy and fear cause the face to pale, and love makes it glow.
- Paramhansa Yogananda
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Spanish proverb
You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.
- Unknown
Fear not that your life will someday end. Fear only that you do nothing with it.
- Unknown
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
- Betty Bender
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
- Lloyd Douglas
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men,
for whom only death could bring release
- John M. Wilson
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
- Edward R. Murrow
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