I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. Nadia Comaneci on fear
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley on fear
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Christian Nestell Bovee on fear
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Arnold H. Glasow on fear
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. George Saunders on fear
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. George Santayana on fear
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce on fear
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison on fear
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Jean de La Fontaine on fear
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. Merle Shain on fear
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Virgil on fear
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. Paul Ryan on fear
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function. Stokely Carmichael on fear
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. Mason Cooley on fear
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. William Hazlitt on fear
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Herodotus on fear
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. Gary Ryan Blair on fear
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. Ricky Williams on fear
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. Albert Ellis on fear