Fear can come in many forms. For example, some people are afraid of a particular animal, and some people are scared of height, and some are afraid of darkness. Whatever the reason is, everybody has something that they are scared of.
While being afraid of something is a common thing, some people are so terrified ‘that’ fear that they cannot do anything and, even worse, they cannot face it at all.
No matter what happens, they will try to run away from it as far as possible as long as they don’t have to ‘see’ it anymore. You might be thinking that they are free to choose, whether to face it or not.
But then, let me tell you something, everything you want is on the other side of fear. You can’t live your dream while being afraid about something that happened in the past or something that doesn’t happen ‘yet’ in the future.
This ‘fear’ will only limit your action and block your way to success. To become successful in your life, the first thing you should do is confront the fears with a head up. Because only by handling and beating the ‘fears’ that can make you unstoppable.
Thus, you can keep moving on until you reach the destination and make your dream become a reality. To motivate you on how to overcome fear, here are some quotes for you.
Overcome Fear Quotes
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
“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
“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.” – Clara Barton
“Never be afraid to sit a while and think.” – Lorraine Hansberry
“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” – Fernando Flores
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” – Marilyn Ferguson
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.” – Hunter S. Thompson
“Fear is excitement without breath.”
– Robert Heller
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
“Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John Rockefeller
“ Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Each of us must confront our own fears, and 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
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” – William Shakespeare
“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure; it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.” – Gandhi
“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
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” – Napoleon Hill
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – 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
“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
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“ Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.” – Epictetus
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
“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
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” – William Feather
“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
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“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…Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon
“There is no illusion greater than fear.” – Lao Tzu
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
– W. Clement Stone
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” – Katherine Paterson
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” – Mary Ferguson
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” – Marilyn Monroe
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent van Gogh
“Where fear is, happiness is not.” – Seneca
“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
“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
“You miss 100% of the shots you didn’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“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
“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.” – Bear Grylls
“Great fear is concealed under daring.” – Lucan
“The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!” – Joyce Meyer
“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.” – William Congreve
“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.” – Elizabeth I
“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.” – Douglas Horton
“Living with fear stops us from taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.” – Sarah Parish
“You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, ‘I love you and nothing will destroy you and you’re not going to fall.’” – Ricky Martin
“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
