We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear “staying stuck.” We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying.

- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Fear is always around some desire. You want to become a famous man, the most famous man in the world- then there is fear. What if you cannot make it? Fear comes. You want to become the richest man in the world. What if you don't succeed? You start trembling; fear comes. You want to possess a woman and you are afraid that tomorrow you may not be able to hold on to her, she may go to somebody else.

- Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

- Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

- Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

- C. JoyBell C.

There is nothing to fear but to fear the fear itself

- Saikat Dey, Not Found

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

- Michael Grant, Fear

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others.

- Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living