Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears.
I let go of all fear and doubt, and life becomes simple and easy for me.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.
Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.