It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear breeds fear."
Byron Janis
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Frank Herbert
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
Eric Hoffer
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."
Michael Pritchard
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
Ambrose Redmoon
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
Oscar Wilde