"Always it comes about that the beginning of wisdom is a fear."
Miguel De Unamuno

"Behold the turtle: He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." James Bryant Conant

"Courage is often caused by fear." French Proverb

"Despair and confidence both banish fear." William Alexander

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." Edmund Burke

"Even the bravest are frightened by sudden terrors." Tacitus

"Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, but coward-like with trembling terror die." Shakespeare

"Fear always springs from ignorance." Emerson

"Fear and Guilt are the same things, and when our actions are not, our fears are crimes." Sir John Denham

"Fear and terror scrape out the bottom of one's soul." Anthony Sloane

"Fear brings out the worst in everybody." Maya Angelou

"Fear cannot live with faith." Charles G. Adams

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment." Voltaire

"Fear is a hindrance to all virtue." Publilus Syrus

"Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles." Jean Toomer

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." Sophie Tunnell

"Fear is nothing but faith in reverse gear! The foundation on which both faith and fear rests is belief in something." Napoleon Hill

"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see underground, and much more in the skies." Cervantes

"Fear is stronger than love." Thomas Fuller

"Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed." Unknown

"Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety." Henry H. Tweedy

"Fear is the parent of cruelty." J. A. Froude

"Fear itself made her daring." Ovid

"Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener." George Herbert

"Fear kills more than disease." George Herbert

"Fear loves the idea of danger." Joubert

"Courage is knowing what not to fear." Plato

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