Here is a collection of fear quotes to inspire courage in facing our fears. You can add these quotes in cards, emails and letters to encourage your family and friends.
Fear can be a crippling emotion, paralyzing us from taking action and dominating our thoughts, causing us to live a life below our potential. Although it is scary to face our fears but avoiding them will cause it to grow bigger. Be brave and take a bold step in conquering your fears today.
Let the music sing in your heart as you pluck up the courage to overcome your fears and pursue your dreams!
"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
"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
- Dale Carnegie
"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
"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
- Winston Churchill
"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
- Dale Carnegie
"You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind."
- Zig Ziglar
"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
- Oprah Winfrey
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
- Henry Ford
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage."
- Dale Carnegie
"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 you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"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
"Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you."
- Robert Kiyosaki
"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear is the enemy of logic."
- Frank Sinatra
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
- Mark Twain
"Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers."
- General Colin Powell
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
- Dale Carnegie
"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."
- Bo Bennett
"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
- Andrew Carnegie
"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."
- Bo Bennett
"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations."
- Alan Loy McGinnis
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Dr. Robert Schuller
"God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition."
- Mary Kay Ash
"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
- Mary Kay Ash
"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."
- Les Brown
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
- Jim Rohn
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
- Dale Carnegie
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