Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.