“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” 
― Nelson Mandela

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.” 
― Rainbow Rowell

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” 
― Dan Brown

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” 
― Paulo Coelho

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” 
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....” 
― Erica Jong

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.” 
― Patrick Rothfuss

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” 
― C.S. Lewis