As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
We fear the thing we want the most.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
I’m different, and my manner invites questions. I’m never afraid to answer.
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
