I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Without fear there cannot be courage.
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.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
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