The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
T.H. White
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S Lewis
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus