Fear

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

—Ann Radcliffe

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

—Bertrand Russell

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

—Dr. David M. Burns

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

—Edmund Burke

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

—Eric Hoffer

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

—Farrah Gray

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

—Ferdinand Foch

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

—Frances Moore Lappe

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

—Francis Quarles

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

—George Carlin

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

—George Sewell

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

—Michael Pritchard