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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar100–44 BC
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Andrew Carnegie1835–1919
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
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8: How I Conquered Worry
- Time
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
Jim Carreyborn 19622014 Maharishi University graduation ceremony
- Motivation & Goals
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)
- Politics
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XVII: “The Red Angel”
- Children
Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.
Pema Chödrönborn 1936When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
- Change
You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time⁠—of anything. If you’re laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964Parade interview (23 September 2007)
- Laughter
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- Food
The horror! The horror!
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
- Life & Death
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 33In context
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself
Daniel Defoe1660–1731Robinson Crusoe (1719), Chapter XIIn context
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book III, Chapter 6