43 Quotes About Fear
I love quotes! A good quote can help shift your perspective at just the right moment and provide inspiration in the face of darkness. Enjoy some of my favorite quotes about a topic near and dear to my heart: Fear.
You might take one (or two or more) of your favorites and post them around so you can see them, read them, and breathe them in when you need a dose of inspiration.
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. ~ Marianne Williamson
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. ~ Japanese Proverb
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~ James Stephens
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~ Unknown
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. ~ Milton
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. ~ Helen Keller
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer
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
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
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
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
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ~ Bruce Barton
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. ~ Baruch Spinoza
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. ~ Salvador Dali
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~ Dale Carnegie
For tips on HOW to overcome your fear, check out my online course –> “Fear 101: How to Harness the Power of Fear to Get Back on Track.”
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. ~ Karl Augustus Menninger
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~ Shirley MacLaine
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ~ Mark Twain
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ~ Paulo Coelho
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ~ Pope John Paul II
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
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~ C. S. Lewis
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~ Buddha
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ~ Babe Ruth
Check out my online course “Fear 101: How to Harness the Power of Fear to Get Back on Track” to get some of my best tips on using fear to your advantage.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. ~ Chanakya
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ~ Jim Morrison
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ~ H. P. Lovecraft
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
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
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. ~ Gandhi
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. ~ Unknown
For tips on HOW to overcome your fear, check out the online course –> “Fear 101: How to Harness the Power of Fear to Get Back on Track.”
