He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Abraham Maslow

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams

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