Why thirteen quotes on fear-well for many even this “unlucky number” evokes unreasonable and superstitious trepidation. Allow these quotes to release you from ungodly, unproductive fears:
- “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways.” ~John Wayne
- “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ~Tim Ferriss
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” ~Arnold Glasow
- “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might oft win by fearing the attempt.” ~William Shakespeare
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” ~Wayne Gretzky
- “Fear does not exist anywhere except in the mind.” ~Dale Carnegie
- “There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.” ~George S. Patton
- “Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” ~German Proverb
- “To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.” ~T.A. Sachs
- “Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision.” ~Winston Churchill
Lest you think this “no fear” mantra is just for the secular minds of antiquity, may I remind of II Timothy 1:7,
“For God hath not given to us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”