What you fear is that which requires action to overcome.

Byron Pulsifer

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Napoleon Hill

All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.

Chinese Proverb

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Sylvia Browne

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

Jerry West

Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.

Nina Tassler

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin