“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
“Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.”
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
“You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.”
“The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.”
“To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.”
“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
“Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.”
“It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.”
“Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”
“The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.”
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.”
“As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.”
“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.”
“Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“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.”
“Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.”
“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.”
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
“God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
“Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.”
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.”