Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
—Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright
Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant—in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American Author, Journalist, Short Story Writer
A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Joking about death—or anything else that oppresses us—makes it less frightening.
—Allen Klein (1931–2009) American Businessperson
Fear is a fine spur.
—Irish Proverb
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, “Okay, choose”. Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
—Yoda Character In ‘Star Wars’
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.
—John Witherspoon (1723–94) Scottish-American Presbyterian Theologian
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could have ever imagined.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
—Les Brown
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
—Marie Curie (1867–1934) Polish-born French Physicist, Chemist
Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur