201 Fear Quotes That Encourage You To Overcome Your Fear

 

Famous Quotes About Fear That Will Improve Your Confidence & Boost The Spirit

 

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

– Frank Herbert (Dune)

Fear Quotes That Encourage You To Overcome Your Fear: Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.

Fear of the unknown is universal but it seems to take the form most commonly in three basic human fundamental fears: ‘Fear of Death, Fear of Abandonment, or Fear of Failure.’ The fear of failure is one of the most common biggest fears that hold people back from living their best life.

Most people consider fear a negative emotion but many Psychologists believe that Fear is an important human emotion. Because it can help protect you from danger and prepare you to take timely action.

Fear advises us that it is necessary to proceed with caution, but also alerts us that there may be tremendous gain if we proceed. When we face our fears, it helps us to grow. Fear helps you make wise and prudent decisions in challenging situations.

However, If you don’t overcome your fears, you will never move from where you are. You will never develop a growth mindset and become a person of action, change, and success.

Today we have compiled some terrific quotes about fear that will help you to identify and face your biggest fears.

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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

– Marianne Williamson

For me, it’s always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it’s only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

– Aaron Rodgers

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

– David Seabury

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

– Dale Carnegie

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Run after your fears. Chase them. Make them shake. And dread the day you gained enough confidence to realize they were full of shit.

– Thibaut

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

– Jim Morrison

Empty fears we all have, most worryings are needless, but still, we fail to understand and go on fretting heedless.

– John McLeod

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentleman.

– Patrick Rothfuss

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

While fear is normal and natural, being obsessed with fear or being hindered by fear is not.

– Alex Fitel

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still, it will return.

– Leigh Bardugo

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

– Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing that fear and hope do not permit men to do.

– Luc de Clapiers

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 1. Forget Everything And Run…
2. Face Everything And Rejoice…! Choice is Yours…!!

– Zig Ziglar

When you conquer your fear, you conquer your life.

– Robin Sharma

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

– Michel de Montaigne

Never let fear decide your future (destiny).

– Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters)
Misattributed to Aaron Bruno, Shalane Flanagan

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Top Fear Quotes For Women Who Want To Go Past of Terror

If someone is living in fear–whether it’s fear of the burglar on your block or the fanatical dictator half a planet away–it’s because she doesn’t understand how the game of security is played. She longs for a fortress, for a fairy-tale solution that will work forever after. It’s a perfectly reasonable longing, and it is because she thinks about security in terms of absolutes or magnifies her level of risk based on her experiences with the media, both news and fiction.

There’s a smart way to be scared. It involves moving beyond fear and thinking sensibly about trade-offs. It involves looking beyond the newspaper headlines and getting a feel for the numbers: a feel for the threats and risks, and the efficacy of the countermeasures. It involves making sensible security trade-offs. The smart way to be scared is to be streetwise.

– Bruce Schneier

When you do not realize that you are one with the river or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

– Shunryu Suzuki

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created. Fear is nothing more than a negative stream of consciousness. All your fears are nothing more than imaginary little gremlins that have crept into your mind over the years.

– Robin Sharma

Courage means going into the unknown in spite of all the fears. Courage does not mean fearlessness. Fearlessness happens if you go on being courageous and more courageous.

– Osho Rajneesh

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

– Swami Vivekananda

You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so. Remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

– Dale Carnegie

Fear. It was happening all over again. That sickly helpless feeling that spread with its icy fingers, slowly eating up all faith and hope.

– Gennita Low

Fear can be seen in the way you walk, in the way you talk, and in the way when someone looks deep into your eyes.

– Robin Sharma

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

– Plato

Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin; a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

– Brendan Francis

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live with nature.

– Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Translated by Farquharson

Face your fears, pursue your ambitions, and become the hero you are destined to be.

– Josh Kaufman

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

– Seth Godin

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (Courage, 1870),
Misattributed to John Dryden, Gaius Julius Caesar

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

– Marilyn Ferguson

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win.

– Charles Spurgeon

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

– Anonymous, Misattributed to Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never trust your fears. They don’t know your strength.

– Athena Singh, Misattributed to Rachel Lacey

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

– Florence Nightingale

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

– Napoleon Hill

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Inspiring Quotes About Fear That Help You Face Your Fears

There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

– Paulo Coelho

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

– Martin Amis

Fear is a conditioned response: A life-sucking habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity, and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear.

– Robin Sharma

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

– Swami Vivekananda

Fear itself is a creation of your mind. It does not exist independently. Since it is a fabrication, you don’t have to fight it. Just understand it. Understanding is the key to freedom.

– The Ancient Sage

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

– Louis E. Boone

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

– Don Miguel Ruiz

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

– Bertrand Russell

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

– Gillian Anderson

Fear has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

– Zig Ziglar

When you erase fear from your mind, you start to look younger and your health becomes more vibrant.

– Robin Sharma

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

– Attributed to Alexander the Great

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

– Aeschylus

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

– Les Brown

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

– Andre Gide

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Fear defeats more people than any other thing in the world.

– Anonymous, Misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Elbert Hubbard, Napoleon Bonaparte, Dale Carnegie

You can get anything you want if you can get past fear.

– Barbara Corcoran

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dry your tears, have no fears.

– Bob Marley

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Fear And Loathing Quotes That Tell Why You Should Not Fear

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, and in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

– Charles Stanley

The fear of rejection prevents connection, and the only way to get rid of fear is to do the thing you fear the most. Learn communication skills, replace bad relationships, reach out, and risk connecting with someone.

– Rick Warren

Fear is a gripping emotion, yet with all that is going on, we can assure you of the one thing that we can count on: God is still on His throne, and He is still in complete control.

– Lisa Laizure

All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

– L. Frank Baum

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

– Hermann Hesse

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

– Dale Carnegie

No person, in any culture, likes to be bullied. No person likes living in fear because his or her ideas are different.

– Barack Obama

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

– Criss Jami

There can be no initiative if one has fear, and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus, etc.

– Bruce Lee

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

– William Faulkner

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

– Isa Upanishad

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Don’t let your fear of failure stop you from realizing your dreams.

– Catherine Pulsifer

To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone.

– David Joseph Schwartz

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

– Miguel de Cervantes

Fear is static which prevents me from hearing myself.

– Samuel Butler

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New Quotes About Fear For People Who Are Feeling Helpless

A lot of people live in fear because they haven’t figured out how they are going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I’ve come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful – what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck – and then figuring out what I can do about it.

– Chris Hadfield

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watching it, learning about it, and coming directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

– John Lennon

There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.

– Ryan Holiday

Bullies believe they can maintain control if they use hate and fear as weapons. They appear self-confident and strong because they intimidate weaker people.

– Amy Cooper Hakim

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

– Rosa Parks

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

– Henry Ford

If you decide to move forward with conquering your fears in life you will see your self-esteem soar to new heights!

– Christopher Quinn

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

– Eric Hoffer

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

Fear of change is often the result of imagined consequences rather than reality.

– Richard Gerver

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

– John C. Maxwell

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

– Etty Hillesum

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

– William Hazlitt

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

– Robert Benchley

Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.

– Robin Sharma

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

– Wayne Dyer

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

– Aristotle

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Motivational Quotes on Fear And Its Impact on Human Mind

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

All of us are beset by fears, pain, and doubts. We let ourselves get turned away from our goals by obstructions. But it is possible, as Marie Curie once reminded us, to change our world so that nothing in life is to be feared, only understood.

– Og Mandino

The best way to overcome a fear is to go straight towards it. When you choose to step into your full power and face the things you are afraid of, you begin to take quantum leaps in your life.

– Michael Austin Jacobs

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

– Virgil Thomson

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

– Eric Hoffer

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

– Andrew Cuomo

Fear can only stop us if we let it and finally, don’t forget your friends; they might just be your lifeline when you need it most.

– Tony Clark

So never fear failure or try to avoid it. Embrace it. Rejoice in it. It’s a sign that you’ve gone far enough.

– Destiny Madu

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

– Anatole France

Whatever we are afraid of, we hold the power within ourselves to deal with it if we decide to.

– Frank Arrigazzi

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

– Thomas Carlyle

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

– Shannon L. Alder

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

– Zach Wamp

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

– Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais

Fear of success can be just as crippling as the fear of failure.

– John Allen

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

– Christian Nestell Bovee

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

– Sophocles

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Short Fear Quotes To Renew Your Motivation And Energy

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

– Maya Angelou

Let go of the fears, worries, and doubts. If you have to write them down on a piece of paper and burn them, do it. Have a funeral for your fears, worries, and doubts. Let them rest in peace so that you can live, work, and play in peace.

– David DeNotaris

You should never be afraid of people… such fear can destroy us completely. You’ve simply got to get rid of it if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don’t you?

– Hermann Hesse

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

– Mark Rutherford, Misattributed to Hale White

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

– Hunter S. Thompson

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.

– Dustin Hoffman

If you’re scared of something, dive in the next time you experience that fear and revel in it, sampling it like a rare delicacy.

– J. Truant

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

– James F. Byrnes

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

– Harriet Lerner

Feeling fear is human, but conquering it will make you feel empowered, courageous, and proud.

– Alex Niles

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

– Charles Caleb Colton

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

– John Keats

The most dangerous kind of person … is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

– Philip K. Dick

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

– Brendan Behan

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

– Karl Augustus Menninger

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

– Ivan Klima

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

– Publilius Syrus

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Fear Quotes That Will Inspire You To Achieve More In Life

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

– Steve Jobs

There is always something more that feeds the anger than what is observed on the surface. Angry people may appear strong, willful, or certain, but be assured that beneath the veneer are fear and loneliness and insecurity and pain.

– Les Carter

Fear is pushed aside as that person takes full responsibility for their life. They are so busy doing, they have no time to criticize others and worry about what other people think of them.

– Mike Finley

Are you willing to give up what you have in order to become what you want to be? Most people fear change and, therefore, never grow past the point of mediocrity.

– Richard A. Franks

To become fearless in life, do one thing that scares you every day. You will soon run out of fears… We come into this life in one day and die in one day.

– Anonymous

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

– Friedrich Durrenmatt

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.

– Katharine Butler Hathaway

A duty carelessly fulfilled, a rule wrongly observed, and a virtuous life followed out of fear – cannot bring good results.

– Anonymous

Identifying and acknowledging that fear is affecting you in your life, is the first step towards overcoming any fear.

– Annalie Coetzer

Never forget: fear is a bully – an insecure, mean kid who feels better when you feel small.

– Nicole Johnson

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death.

– Betty Bender

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

– Georges Bernanos

Fear is the needle that pierces us so that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

– James Hastings

Too many of us never realize our full potential because our fears block us.

– Les Brown

Fear can keep us up all night long but faith makes one fine pillow.

– Philip Gulley

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

– Stephen Richards

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

– Edmund Burke

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Best Fear Quotes With Images To Realize Your True Potential

Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

– Queen Latifah

The answer, maybe, is going out and doing rather than waiting. If you wait, life will probably pass you by. But if you go out and do the things you want to, take the risks you fear, you may just find that everything slots into place.

– Rob E. Geraghty

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.

– Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.

– Laura Schlessinger

I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

– Nadia Comaneci

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

– Tim Ferriss

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

– John Lennon

Fear is one of the great evils of our times, perverting our minds in times of uncertainty and precariousness.

– Gianni Ferrario, Adolfo Panfili

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion, we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but as ‘us’.

– Dalai Lama

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

– Edmund Burke

A man who flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.

– John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Fearing to grieve gets us nowhere. With grief, the way back is the way through.

– Carol Staudacher

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers.

– May Sarton

The big lesson in life, baby, is – never be scared of anyone or anything.

– Frank Sinatra

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

– Joseph Chilton Pearce

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

– Joseph Campbell

Fear is a mile high, a mile wide, but only paper thin.

– GIA Recovery (Facebook Page)

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

– Arnold Glasow

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Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.

– David Richo

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

– Harold Kushner

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

– Robert Greene

If you are programmed to fear something, you will fear it, even though consciously you think that it is ridiculous. It is same as the success and failure.

– Benny Zhang

There are things that a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

– Lady Bird Johnson

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

– Francis Quarles

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

– Dan Brown

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

– Lucius Anneaus Seneca

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

– Olive Schreiner

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

– Rudyard Kipling

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

– Alfred Adler

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.

– Anthony Robbins

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

– Henry Link

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

– Leonardo Da Vinci

Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

– Hecato of Rhodes (Seneca, Letter 5)
Misattributed to L.A. Seneca, Marcus Aurelius

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Overcoming Fear Quotes That Will Make You Bold And Fearless

Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Like any other creation, it is just as easy to tear it down as it is to erect it. Search for and then destroy every fear that has secretly slid into the fortress of your mind. This alone will give you enormous confidence, happiness, and peace of mind.

– Robin Sharma

Ambivalent and fearful feelings toward one another wouldn’t happen if we saw others as a reflection of ourselves but we believe we are so different from one another and therefore we don’t have to feel for others or help them.

– Geoff Warren

Fear makes us look for someone to blame, throw up our hands in defeat, and give in to a victim mentality. Faith chooses to face the challenge with hope for a brighter tomorrow.

– Penny Hunt

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils that hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

– Winston Churchill

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.

– Vincent Van Gogh

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back…

– Erica Jong

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

– Howard Phillips Lovecraft

To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

– Peter McWilliams

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

– Stephen King

My dear, In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

– George Bernard Shaw

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

– Baruch Spinoza

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

– John Cheever

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

– Chanakya

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

– Ovid

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

– Dale Carnegie

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

– Robin Sharma

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

– Attributed as A Japanese Proverb

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Fear is programmed into our nervous system and works like an instinct. From the time we’re infants, we are equipped with the survival instincts necessary to respond with fear when we sense danger or feel unsafe. Fear helps protect us. It makes us alert to danger and prepares us to deal with it.

But you have to exhibit some courage if you want to overcome your fears otherwise you will be scared all the time and you won’t have the energy, focus, speed, or strength to fight or flee. We hope you liked these fear quotes. Feel free to share your thoughts on fear in the comment box below.

“The moment you fear, you are nobody. Fear is the greatest cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes. And it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment.”

– Swami Vivekananda