Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
- Veronica Roth

How the truth is seen often defines the truth. If he is feared for power, how much power he truly has to wield is immaterial, for the fear is still real.

- Raymond E. Feist, from A Kingdom Besieged, Book One

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says; turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
- Erica Jong

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
- Baruch Spinoza

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
- Samuel Butler

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
- John Lennon

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffet

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
- Stephen King, in Night Shift.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
- Jackie Chan

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli