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"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." »Frank Herbert
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else." »Oswald Chambers
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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." »Jim Morrison
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"I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent." »Assyrian Proverb
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"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." »Erica Jong
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." »Mark Twain
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"Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." »Maya Angelou
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other." »Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death"
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"Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him." »Saint Teresa of Avila
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." »Bertrand Russell
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." »H. L. Mencken
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"The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear" »Unknown
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"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." »Buddha
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"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear." »John C. Dvorak
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"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." »John Donne
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"I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire." »Thomas Paine
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"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." »Rabbi Harold Kushner
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"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully." »Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." »Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
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"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation." »Peter McWilliams
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." »Ambrose Redmoon
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"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another." »Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." »Ambrose Redmoon
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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone." »David Joseph Schwartz
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." »Marianne Williamson
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