So little of what could happen does happen.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Fear's power is built on an empty foundation, it can be defeated just by stepping forward.

most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

, your spirit is attacked by cowardly fear, that often weighs men down, so that it deflects them from honourable action

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

Few fears are rational.

Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against fear, the engendering of that tawdry despot's fall, has more or less nothing to do with 'courage'. It is driven by something much more straightforward: the simple need to get on with your life.

Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.