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"Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. What's not good is living in fear, allowing fear to define who you are. Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, taking its measure, refusing to let it shape and define your life."
-- Michael Ignatieff (1947-), author and critic

“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator ... The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
-- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."
-- Brendan Francis (1923–1964), Irish writer

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
-- Anonymous

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ..."
Holy Bible, 1 John 4:18

"The person who is free from fear does something [rather than just complain]. He makes conscious choices. He is proactive rather than passive. He doesn’t let life happen to him. He makes his life happen. He doesn’t complain. He captures the moment and makes the best of it. He sees everything as an opportunity to learn something new, share something about himself, or make a request."
-- Rhonda Britten: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret

"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear."
-- George Smith Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), a leading U.S. Army general in World War II.

"When thinking won't cure fear, action will."
-- W. Clement Stone

"I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (Former American President)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anais Nin

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears."
-- Rudyard Kipling, author

"People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it and takes the dare of the future he can have some control over his destiny."
-- John Glenn, astronaut and U.S. Senator

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
-- Anthony Robbins, speaker and author

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 writer, educator and public speaker

"Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith ... Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun."
-- John Harricharan, award-winning author of The Power Pause

"Fear is worrying about all the different tomorrows. Fear is worrying about the bad days that may or may not come, and even worrying about the good ones because you know that they can’t last. You can dream of the future, plan for it – those are good things to do – but you can’t control all the tomorrows… To be afraid is to live among all the frightening tomorrows as if they were certain to happen. To be courageous is to close off all those tomorrows and devote your attention and energy to the one today that is the only thing you ever experience with certainty."
-- Joe Tye: Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
-- Marilyn Ferguson

"I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we really are"
-- Francis Moore Lappe

"Is there a fear to be faced in order to accomplish the 'win'? Oddly enough, a fear many people face is the fear of succeeding at consistently accomplishing the tasks on their to-do lists. This is a genuine accomplishment. It means conquering the fear of being an effective person. Should that kind of fear be getting in your way, dig down deep, face your fear, acknowledge your rights and ability to be effective, and plow right in to get those suckers done!"
-- Stephanie Winston: Organized for Success: Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top

"Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do the thing you are afraid of. Fear has certain benefits in that it alerts you to possible problems, so it is a good check for things that can go wrong. Once you are aware of the possible problems, fear has done its job and you should move on, either through the thing you are afraid of, or take another route. The key thing is to move. Feel the fear and move, which way, is up to you."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."
-- Brian Tracy