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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar100–44 BC
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself⁠—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Good & Evil
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Decisions
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain1835–1910
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act I, scene 3, line 12.In context
- Anger
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1950).
- Wisdom
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke1729–1797A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II Section II
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Andrew Carnegie1835–1919
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Inspiration
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919An Autobiography (1913)
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30