There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
You must become what you want to attract. Be the kind of person you would want to surround yourself with.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
Great fear is concealed under daring.
—F. L. Lucas (1894–1967) English Literary Critic, Poet, Novelist, Playwright
My “fear” is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
—Franz Kafka (1883–1924) Austrian Novelist, Short Story Writer
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
—Arthur Koestler (1905–83) British Writer, Journalist, Political Refugee
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get them.
—Frank Hall Crane (1873–1948) American Stage and Film Actor, Director
From this moment on, every time you feel afraid, remind yourself that it is simply because you are not feeling good enough about yourself.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
—David M. Burns
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
—Hannah Arendt (1906–75) German-American Philosopher, Political Theorist
You may never relate the experiences of others, especially those of celebrities, to your life. You may think they are lucky because they aren’t afraid to put themselves out there. Not so! They had to push through a tremendous amount of fear to get where they are today… and they are still pushing.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
When you run in fear, it’s square into the wall.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
—George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader
All fear is painful, and when it conduces not to safety, is painful without use.—Every consideration, therefore, by which groundless terrors may be removed, adds something to human happiness.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
When you inhabit any of these three roles, you’re reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You’re always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.
—David Emerald
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood.
—Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
—William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist
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; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!-incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn’t know what fear was,” we ought always to add the flea-and put him at the head of the procession.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
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