50 Quotes About Overcoming Fear

Facing fears can change your life and make you stronger. Explore 50 inspiring quotes from famous people, encouraging you to tackle your worries with courage and discover the exciting opportunities waiting for you on the other side of fear.

50 Quotes About Overcoming Fear

Fear is a universal emotion, one that can both protect and paralyze us. It often stands as a barrier between where we are and where we want to be. Yet, the act of overcoming fear is one of life’s greatest achievements, leading to personal growth, fulfillment, and the discovery of our own resilience.

Here are 50 quotes from various thinkers, leaders, and creatives that shed light on the nature of fear and encourage the courage to overcome it. Let these words of wisdom empower you to face your fears head-on and embrace the life you've always desired.

Quote About Overcoming Fear, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear."
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear."
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."
  1. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  2. "Feel the fear and do it anyway." – Susan Jeffers
  3. "Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift." – Dante Alighieri
  4. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear." – Mark Twain
  5. "Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." – Japanese Proverb
  6. "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair
  7. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." – Yoda
  8. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela
  9. "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do." – Henry Ford
  10. "Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out." – Karl Augustus Menninger
  11. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown
  12. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  13. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." – Louisa May Alcott
  14. "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." – Nelson Mandela
  15. "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  16. "The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it." – Susan J. Jeffers
  17. "Fear is faith that it won’t work out." – Unknown
  18. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" – Vincent van Gogh
  19. "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears." – Rudyard Kipling
  20. "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
  21. "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  22. "Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind." – Dale Carnegie
  23. "The key to change... is to let go of fear." – Rosanne Cash
  24. "Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
  25. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie
  26. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." – William Allen White
  27. "Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the slayer of ambitions." – Unknown
  28. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  29. "If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make." – Iyanla Vanzant
  30. "Fear is temporary. Regret is forever." – Unknown
  31. "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
  32. "Fear is contagious. But so is courage." – Unknown
  33. "It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith." – Emma Watson
  34. "Great fear is concealed under daring." – Lucan
  35. "Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." – Rabindranath Tagore
  36. "To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around." – Richie Norton
  37. "Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down." – Arianna Huffington
  38. "Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real." – Unknown
  39. "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." – Brené Brown
  40. "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness." – Brené Brown
  41. "We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets." – Marilyn Monroe
  42. "Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill
  43. "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." – Seneca
  44. "Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth." – Pema Chödrön
  45. "Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there." – Chuck Palahniuk
  46. "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." – Shirley MacLaine
  47. "Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death." – Omar N. Bradley
  48. "I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it." – Serena Williams
  49. "Do what you fear and fear disappears." – David Schwartz
  50. "Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." – Leigh Bardugo
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Quote About Overcoming Fear, "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

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