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Quotes About Fear

Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let your fear dance with courage — and let courage lead.
~ Terri Guillemets
Taste just a sliver of courage and it's hard to go back to fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Courage climbs atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!
~ Terri Guillemets
When we fear death, we are letting him wrap his bony hands around our necks during the best times of our lives, choking us with imaginary threats and preventing us from breathing the pure air of now.
~ Terri Guillemets
Fear of death is fear of life— and fear of life is fear of all that is.
~ Terri Guillemets
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
~ Terri Guillemets
Alas! thou talk'st like one who never felt Th' impatient throbs longings of a soul... A lover does not live by vulgar time: Believe me, Portius, in my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; And yet, when I behold the charming maid, I'm ten times more undone, while hope and fear, And grief, and rage, and love, rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me...
~ Joseph Addison, Cato, 1713
Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day.
~ Terri Guillemets
Experience makes more timid men than it duz wise ones.
~ Josh Billings
Faith is not without worry or care, But Faith is Fear that has said a prayer.
~ Thelma Ireland, "Faith," 1943
Fear knocked at the door, faith opened it and lo, there was no one there.
~ Author unknown, c.1930s
Fear alone is real death to the brave man.
~ Proverb
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.
~ Bertrand Russell
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is one part prudence.
~ Proverb
He who shows fear gives courage to his adversary.
~ Proverb
Fear is untrust of the process of life.
~ Terri Guillemets
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
~ German proverb
Fear has big eyes.
~ Proverb
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
~ Arab proverb
A coward's fear makes a brave man braver.
~ Proverb
Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it's just spouting fear.
~ Terri Guillemets