55 Quotes on Overcoming Fear

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Fear is a tricky thing.

It can be helpful, for example, if you're walking alone through a dark alley — your fear can protect you by telling you to keep your guard up.

On the other hand, fear can also be crippling — the opportunities we don't seize, the experiences we're hesitant to try out, and the stronger, better person we fail to become.

Whether it's fear of the unknown, fear of failure, or fear of success, overcoming our fears is one of the most important steps to personal development.

For this reason, it's best to get as much help as we can, even from simple inspirational quotes from time to time. 

Below are 55 quotes on overcoming fear.

1. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller

2. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -William Shakespeare

3. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. -Dale Carnegie

4. Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -John Rockefeller

5. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. -Benjamin Franklin

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6. Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt



7. 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


8. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. -Jack Canfield


9. Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -William Shakespeare


10. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -Robert H. Schuller


11. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -Zig Ziglar


12. Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. -Gandhi


13. Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. -Japanese Proverb


14. 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

15. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda


16. Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. -Napoleon Hill


17. Feel the fear and do it anyway. -Susan Jeffers


18. Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.  -Salvador Dali


19. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson


20. I failed my way to success. -Thomas Edison


21. 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


22. 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


23. 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


24. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. -Ralph Waldo Emerson


25. 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


26. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -Theodore Roosevelt


27. Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. -Epictetus


28. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. -Napoleon Hill


29. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -Abraham Lincoln


30. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth


31. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. -William Feather


32. 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


33. 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


34. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. -Francis Chan


35. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius


36. People living deeply have no fear of death. -Anais Nin


37. 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


38. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill


39. The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear. -Gandhi


40. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard


41. 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


42. There is no failure except in no longer trying. -Elbert Hubbard


43. There is no illusion greater than fear. -Lao Tzu


44. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W. Clement Stone


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


46. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown


47. 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


48. Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. -Mary Ferguson


49. We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe


50. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent van Gogh


51. When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. -Norman Vincent Peale


52. Where fear is, happiness is not. - Seneca


53. 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


54. 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


55. You miss 100% of the shots you didn't take. -Wayne Gretzky


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