PAULO COELHO

“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself" - often the scenarios are not as bad as they are in our mind.

• Fear of success usually doesn’t mean a literal fear of success. People fear the results and consequences of making lots of money, for example, not the money itself.
• Fear of success is often learned at a young age.
• Fear of success is maintained (and made worse) by avoidance.

"There's nothing to fear but fear itself"

Most of the time it's not the thing that you're afraid of. It's the actual fear that's holding you back. 

You should be afraid of the fear, because the fear is going to hold you back more than a hypotetical situation ...