What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams fears joys sorrows desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
How blessed are some people whose lives have no fears no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what it is still possible for you to do.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.
We cannot banish dangers but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Courage enlarges cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure the process is its own reward.
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights fire needles spiders snakes angry monkeys being shot being hit by a car going blind - you name it I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
If you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
He is the best man who when making his plans fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him but in the moment of action is bold.