1. Tad Williams - “We tell lies when we are afraid, ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

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2. Unknown - “All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made.”

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3. Unknown - “Those who are afraid of doing too much always do too little.”

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4. Jonathan Swift - “Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”

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5. Bertrand Russell - “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”

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6. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Too many of us stay walled up because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

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7. Alan Paton - “Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.”

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8. Earl Nightingale - “Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”

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9. Arthur F. Lenenhan - “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”

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10. Andy Offutt Irwin - “Don't be afraid to be amazing.”

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11. John Heywood - “More frayd then hurt.”

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12. William Hazlitt - “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”

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13. Grace Hansen - “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

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14. Earl J. Glade - “We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.”

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15. Robert Frost - “There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.”

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16. Maurice Freehill - “Who is more foolish — the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”

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17. William Faulkner - “Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.”

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18. Richard L. Evans - “We are what we are, wherever we are.”

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19. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons.”

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20. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

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21. John Dryden - “I am devilishly afraid, that’s certain; but ... I’ll sing, that I may seem valiant.”

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22. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky - “It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word.”

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23. James S. Conner - “He was dying, and his wife had just said that she was afraid of what was about to happen. There's no need to be.”

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24. Robert Charles Benchley - “Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.”

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25. Jean Anouilh - “An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.”

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