The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Fear is our only god.
-Anonymous

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
-Marcel Proust

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
-Helen Keller

Fear is probably the thing that limits performance more than anything - the fear of not doing well, of what people will say. You've got to acknowledge those fears then release them.
-Mark Allen

Everyone has some fear. A man without fear belongs in a mental institution...or on a football team, either one.
-Walt Michaels, Cleveland Browns linebacker

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
-John Steinbeck

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
-Bertrand Russell

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
-Libba Bray