A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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.
There is no devil but fear.
Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.