Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.

If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

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.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don’t, how will they ever come to appreciate safety.

It is only when you fail to control your fears through your thoughts and beliefs that they would start to control you.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.