Quotes about fear
- Fear is the boundary between you and your dreams
- -Anurag Prakash Ray
- Fear imprisons, courage liberates, and love strengthens.
- -Unknown
- It’s not the thing you fear that has power over you, its your fear of that thing that has power over you.
- -Eddie Harris Jr
- Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain
- -Unknown
- The key to change… is to let go of fear.
- -Rosanne Cash
- Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
- -Fulton Oursler
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest
- -Unknown
- You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- ~W. Clement Stone
- 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.
- -Unknown
- Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
- ~Usman B. Asif
- Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
- ~Brendan Francis
- You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
- ~Mary Manin Morrissey
- Fearless” is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- ~Ambrose Redmoon
- Where ever fear shadows…. that always means there is a light shining somewhere.
- ~Jonathan Santos
- A mind focused on doubt and fear cannot focus on the journey to victory.
- ~ Mike Jones
- I failed my way to success.
- There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
- Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
- ~Henry H. Tweedy
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
- ~Brendan Francis
- Fear cannot take what you do not give it.
- ~Christopher Coan
- He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- ~Unknown
- Fear cannot destroy your dreams, only you can.
- ~Michelle Kurka
- He who fears something gives it power over him.
- ~Moorish Proverb
- Fear cannot be unless you let it be!
- ~Anu Ewebiyi
- I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story…
- ~Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
- ~French Proverb
- The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
- ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death.
- ~Betty Bender
- I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
- ~Erica Jong
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
- -Yoda
- The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- 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.
- Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Fear is 100% dependent on your for its survival.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
- Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
- He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
- 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.
- Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
- 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.
- Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.
- Fear is the prison of the heart.
- The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
- Fear has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.
- The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
- Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can. I will.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
- We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
- The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Fear is an emotion that makes us blind. How many things are we afraid of? We’re afraid to turn off the lights when our hands are wet. We’re afraid to stick a knife into the toaster to get the stuck English muffin without unpluggin it first. We’re afraid of what the doctor may tell us when the physical exam is over; when the airplane suddenly takes a great unearthly lurch in midair. We’re afraid that the oil may run out, that the good air will run out, the good water, the good life. When the daughter promised to be in by eleven and it’s now quarter past twelve and sleet is spatting against the window like dry sand, we sit and pretend to watch Johnny Carson and look occasionally at the mute telephone and we feel the emotion that makes us blind, the emotion that makes a stealthy ruin of the thinking process.
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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