Fear

If fear wins, you lose.
Michael Altshuler, motivational speaker

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

Fear is nature's way of testing you to see if you are serious about your goals.

Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
C.E. Welch, business executive

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

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

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy consequences. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises as hard knocks. You are likely to find that it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it.
Norman Vincent Peale

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis (1926-1991), jazz musician

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear... Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Father Vincent in Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Not until I was alone that night could I begin to allow the full extent of my own feelings to surface . I felt such fear, such bottomless anxiety at the thought of losing my husband, my best friend, my dearest love and inspiration that it threatened to paralyze me. ... To lose this man would be a catastrophe on every level imaginable.
He simply could not die.
Queen Noor of Jordan, when she found out King Hussein had cancer
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, page 403

Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
I John 4:18

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury