Fear

Timid dogs bark worse than they bite.

Latin Proverbs

Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.

Seneca

Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of value of the goal.

John C. Maxwell

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor Frankl

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

G.K. Chesterton

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Paulo Coelho

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Lao Tzu

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish proverbs

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

Brian Tracy

The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Paulo Coelho

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Alice Walker

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke