“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.
Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?" by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07356/843782-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 16
“We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous promettons selon nos espérances, et nous tenons selon nos craintes.
Maxim 38.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer
Variant: To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

