If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

I say I am stronger than fear.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.