My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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 then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel Osteen

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle

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.
Nelson Mandela

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.
Bruce Lee

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson