In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. E. E. Cummings
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Rabindranath Tagore
Better face a danger once than be always in fear. English Proverb
He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire. Italian Proverb
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood. Italian Proverb