No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Fear is the prison of the heart.
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
He who fears something gives it power over him.
All fear is bondage.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment.
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.