“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” 
― Stanley Kubrick

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” 
― Francis Chan

“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.” 
― George R.R. Martin

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” 
― Marie Curie

“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.” 
― Michael Crichton

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” 
― William Shakespeare

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” 
― Audre Lorde

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” 
― Tennessee Williams