Do you ever feel like fear is holding you back from what you really want in life? Fear of failure, fear of the unknown, or fear of being judged by others can keep us stuck in a rut. But what if we could find ways to overcome fear and go for our dreams anyway? These quotes about overcoming fear will give you the inspiration you need to take that first step. So read on and be inspired!
Inspirational Quotes About Overcoming Fear
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
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
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Unknown
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Tim Ferriss
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars
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
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
There is no illusion greater than fear.
Lao Tzu
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
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Gandhi
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
Judy Blume
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
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
Karl Augustus Menninger
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard Kipling
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Herman Melville
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn Monroe
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold Glasow
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Laughter is poison to fear.
George R.R. Martin
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Jack Canfield
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
Aeschylus
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?
Les Brown
A Final Word
Fear is a powerful motivator. It can keep us safe by warning us of danger, or it can paralyze us and prevent us from taking risks that could lead to growth.
But what if we let go of our fear? What if we decided to face our fears head-on and see where they take us? These quotes about overcoming fear provide some insight into the transformative power of travel. They remind us that when we step outside of our comfort zone and explore the world around us, we find ourselves in new and exciting ways. So what are you waiting for? Let’s go explore!
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