Quotes About Fear

To find inspirational quotes about fear start here. Fear isn't something that is foreign to any of us but the greatest attitude and understanding of how to overcome any fear is to take action. This action moves us out of our comfort zone but it also is the only way to break free from that which we allow to impede our enjoyment of life. related - quotes about courage. . . quotes about boldness

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

Fear is faith that it won't work out.
Sister Mary Tricky

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Paterson

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

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

For every fear that I have had, ninety-nine percent have been groundless once action was taken.
Byron Pulsifer

What you fear is that which requires action to overcome.
Byron Pulsifer

Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.
Byron Pulsifer

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Bob Dylan

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
Usman B. Asif

By facing our fears we can become more of who we are, a more authentic self.
Marilyn Mason, Ph. D., Seven Mountains, Life Lessons from a Climber's Journal

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson Mandela

I don't run off of fear anymore.
Linda Evans

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth

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.
Dale Carnegie

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along".
Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Do no evil and have no fear.
Italian Saying

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

We do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize our fear, by numbing ourselves to what we feel. By facing our fears we can move slowly ahead on our path to an authentic, committed life.
Marilyn Mason, Ph. D., Seven Mountains, Life Lessons from a Climber's Journal

People often cling to what they know, even if they are not satisfied with it. Fear holds them back, yet the only way to overcome the fear is to go out and do the very thing they fear to do.
John C. Maxwell, The Difference Maker, Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

I realize change really can lead you to a new and better place, although you're afraid it won't at the time.
Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

Face fear head on and give it a go and importantly don't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself about, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge.
Sir Richard Bronson

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