Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley Maclaine

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. – Frederick W. Cropp

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. – Erica Jong

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – Henry Louis Mencken

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. – Samuel Butler

Those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. – Brendan Francis

The worst of all fears is the fear of living. – Theodore Roosevelt

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. – Henry S. Haskins

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. – Usman B. Asif

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. – German Proverb

Fear dances with courage. – Ever Garrison

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. – Henry H. Tweedy

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. – Hafez

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? – Maurice Freehill

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. – Sophie Tunnell

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. – Author Unknown

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. – Ruth Gendler

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. – Orison Swett Marden

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. – French Proverb

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. – Lloyd Jones

Fear is faith that it won’t work out. – Sister Mary Tricky

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. – Theodore Roosevelt

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. – James Hastings

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. – Katherine Paterson

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson