Edward R. Murrow

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men."

- Edward R. Murrow, journalist

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Ronald Reagan

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Publilius Syrus

"Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

William Allen White

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

- William Allen White, author and newspaper editor

Tecumseh

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

- Tecumseh, Native American leader

Bertrand Russell

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

J. K. Rowling

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

Joseph Chilton Pearce

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author

William Shakespeare

"The dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Harold Wilson

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

- Harold Wilson, politician, former Prime Minister of Britain

Corra Harris

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

- Corra Harris, author

Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

- Eddie Rickenbacker, US WWI aviator & businessman

Aesop

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."

- Aesop, Greek slave and fable author

Lao-Tzu

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

William Shakespeare

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

John Steinbeck

"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other"

- 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck

Dr. David M. Burns

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."

- Dr. David M. Burns

Edmund Burke

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

- Edmund Burke, orator, philosopher, politician

Will Durant

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher