“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”

“To say nothing is to tolerate the intolerable. I do not fear those who will call me "Islamophobic" when I denounce their fundamentalism: their blackmail to Islamophobia has never worked with me.”

Waleed Al-Husseini (1989) Palestinian essayist and writer

“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

“The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear,
For so our present harms still most annoy us.”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet