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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. The Alchemist
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. Alchemist
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart. The Alchemist
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. A Game of Thrones
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. A Grief Observed
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Crime and Punishment
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Unpopular Essays
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
Laughter is poison to fear. A Game of Thrones
Courage is knowing what not to fear.