Overcoming fear and anxiety quotes

55 Quotes on Overcoming Fear — Productive and Free

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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Overcoming Fear Quotes (118 quotes)

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“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of women have to do with losing while the fears of men have to do with not being good enough for something. One is loss, the other is insecurity. Men are innately more insecure than women and women are innately more needful of companionship than men. It's good for both men and women to be able to recognize and identify these fears not only within themselves, but within each other, and then men and women will see that they really do need to help each other. It's not a game, it's not a competition, the two sexes need one another.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I am more than my scars.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There is no illusion greater than fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching

“Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.”
― Richie Norton, Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It

“Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.”
― Nathan Fillion

“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”
― Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall

“It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

“Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.”
― Epictetus

“I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“When you're scared, you stay as you are!”
― Stephen Richards

“Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant. ”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“I have been attacked by crows and men with grotesque faces; I have been set on fire by the boy who almost threw me off a ledge; I have almost drowned - twice - and this> is what I can't cope with? This is the fear I have no solutions for - a boy I like, who wants to...have sex with me?”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“If I would not do something – right now – I would never get to live my dreams in waiting.”
― Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"

“Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Critics are loud, but success is louder.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You have to allow the fear to be a messenger;
to give you information that it's attempting to tell you: that you have a negative belief.

You can't be afraid of the fear.
You have to recognize it.
Allow it to do its job.
And therefore once it delivers the information,
what it's bringing your attention to [is]:
"Hey! hey! knock knock knock! You have this negative belief that is out of alignment that you don't prefer!"

Once it brings your attention to that,
you can say: "Thank you fear. Thank you for bringing my attention to something I didn't know about within myself, so that now I can deal with it, now that I can let it go. Thank you fear."

And as soon as you use fear that way and allow it to be what it is; allow it to do the job it was designed to do, it will not be felt as fear anymore.

You will welcome it as a messenger that will alert you to anything within you that's out of alignment.

And you will be excited about feeling it.
And then it will turn into excitement.

That's how you "Allow" with fear.”
― Bashar

“I want to make this point: it’s not that things aren’t scary. They are, and they will continue to be. But each of us has to come to a deep, personal realization that God has already conquered fear—and by the power of His Spirit we can live completely free from fear.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“You—yes, you—can overcome fear and quit living your life as a fearful person, just as I did. It’s not that things aren’t going to be scary; but God has given you power over them.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“Fear will hold you back from some of the most awesome experiences life has to offer, but you don’t have to let that happen. You can tell it, ‘Go away. Not today. Good-bye! In the name of Jesus.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“Fear is a reaction; courage is a response.”
― Bohdi Sanders, The Art of Inner Peace: The Law of Attraction for Inner Peace

“The key ingredient to overcoming fear is not just speaking to it; it’s speaking to it in Jesus’ name.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“If you will stand up to fear, give it a little straight talk, and tell it to leave you alone in Jesus’ name, that will get you a long way. ”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“I challenge you to say yes to whatever you are currently saying no to. Don’t let fear make you say no when God is leading you to say yes.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose

“If a scard sees itself as separate from the sun it can only be scared. The opposite also holds true. If the scard realizes it verily is the sun and that the sun is self differentiated for companionship, for friendship and for love it can only live in bliss. This is the time humankind returns to bliss.”
― Wald Wassermann

“On the journey toward our dreams, sometimes we get scared, sometimes we doubt. Sometimes, life gets in the way. Then something happens, something beautiful that can seem beyond our control. Often, it's a miraculous synchronicity, a glorious happening that falls into our path, giving us that last piece of something we need. It can also be as if we wake up and all the energy, gumption and momentum we had been seeking for so long crests and carries us forward. Suddenly, we are ready to partner with the divine.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Spirit in Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2

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23 great quotes about fear

As much as a person conquers fear, so much he is a person.

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- Thomas Carlyle, British writer

Only mutual fear makes an alliance reliable.

- Thucydides, ancient Greek historian

For other people, wealth only brings that fear of losing it.

- Antoine de Rivarol, French writer

Fear of low and unworthy deeds is courage.

- Benjamin Johnson, English poet and playwright

Shame is the fear of people, conscience is the fear of God.

- Samuel Johnson, English literary critic

Love of the fatherland, shame and fear of reproach are the means of taming and power to restrain many crimes.

— Catherine II

At the moment of death, selfishness undergoes a complete collapse. Hence the fear of death.

- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

Whoever knows the fullness of life does not know the fear of death. Fear of death is only the result of an unfulfilled life.

— Franz Kafka, Austrian writer

Fear makes people think.

- Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher

Better a terrible end than endless fear.

- Johann Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright

There are two levers that can move people: fear and self-interest.

- Napoleon I

Most give up [freedom] out of fear.

- Sallust, Roman historian

Haste is not far from fear, while slowness is closer to true steadfastness.

- Tacitus, Roman historian

We will never negotiate out of fear and we will never be afraid of negotiations.

- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963)

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: how to be afraid of what you should be afraid of, and how not to be afraid of what you should not be afraid of.

- David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1953)

In misfortune, one often regains peace, taken away by fear of misfortune.

— Maria Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer

In politics, what begins with fear usually ends in madness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

Superstitious people in society are the same as cowards in the army: they themselves harbor panic fears and infect others with them.

- Voltaire, French philosopher

The only thing to fear on this planet is man.

- Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist

Fear is a painful awareness of one's own uniqueness.

— Korney Chukovsky, Russian Soviet writer

Fear is not at all in danger, it is in ourselves.

- Stendhal, French writer

Sadness and fear are a reaction to time.

Anguish and horror are a reaction to eternity. Sadness and fear are turned down. Longing and horror - to the sky.

- Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer and journalist

Fear is nothing but deprivation of help from reason.

From the Bible. Prem. 17:11

FEAR. ANXIETY. QUOTES. Quotes about fear and anxiety

If you are afraid to do something, then this is exactly what you need to do first.

The only way to overcome fear is not to run away.

Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan"

Don't let your fears kill your dreams.

Fear disappears when you start doing what you are afraid to do instead of thinking about it.
Eckhart Tolle

A person is able to conquer fear only by being face to face with it.

Carlos Castaneda. "The Teachings of Don Juan: The Way of Knowledge of the Yaqui Indians"

Anxiety, according to Lacan, arises in a person when the desire of the Other comes too close to him, when he, feeling his approach, is powerless, nevertheless, to understand him.
Lacan believes that anxiety is not caused by emptiness and lack, but quite the opposite - by the fact that the place of the alleged lack, unexpectedly for the subject, is occupied. Alexander Chernoglazov - Lacan. Invitation to the Real

Fear teaches not to give up on the goal. Like cunning genies, they whisper in your ear: "Stop, surrender, we are the reality." Do not suppress fears, look into their eyes and say: "You are just thoughts, nothing more." When they reappear, continue to disbelieve them and smile. From hopelessness, fears will go away, and you will freely continue the path to your dream.

Elchin Safarli - Tell me about the sea

If you measure your success by someone else's praise and blame, your anxiety will be endless.
--- Laozi ---

If you are moving in the direction in which your fear grows, then you are on the right path.
Pavic M.

If you cannot get rid of your fears,

learn to live with them)

There is fear simply because you do not live in Life, but only in your imagination. Your fear is related to what will happen in the future, so you are afraid of what does not exist. If you suffer for something that doesn't exist, it's called insanity. People always suffer, either because of what happened yesterday or because of what might happen tomorrow. So all suffering is based on what is not. You're lost in your imagination, that's the root of fear. If you are always here, there will be no fear.

When the hands are freed from fear, they become wings, the hands that are free from fear most gently touch. And this is not a miracle, this is happiness.

Those who are confident in their abilities win. Those who are not able to overcome fear have not yet learned their first lesson in life. Emerson Ralph Waldo

People have to overcome obstacles and they produce fear. Our biggest enemy is fear. Fear makes us perverted, divided, insecure and neurotic. All the problems of life are fear.
Yogi Bhajan

What you are afraid of and what you are running away from will surely overtake you. Because, it is called to be a teacher to you. Therefore, do not run away from him, if you do not want to study forever, but look him straight in the eyes and say: "Hello, let's get acquainted" ...

Do not close your doors to something before you yourself tried, don't do it. Otherwise, many things will remain unlived, unknown. They were available and you could go through something beautiful; you could become richer with their help. Say "yes" to the new...

Osho

Freedom is facing your own fear.

Freedom is freedom from worry. Realizing that you cannot influence the results, do not pay attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Do not feed them with interest and attention. In reality, things are done with you, not you.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To grow into your destiny, you need great courage, fearlessness. Fearlessness is the most religious quality.

People full of fear cannot move beyond the known. Known gives a kind of convenience, security, security, because a person knows everything about him: he knows how to cope with the situation. He can continue to cope, remaining almost asleep - no need to wake up; this is the convenience of the known.

As soon as you transcend the known, fear arises, because now you don't know anything, now you don't know how to behave and what to do. Now you are not sure of yourself, now mistakes are possible; Now there are misconceptions. It is this fear that keeps people attached to the known, and once attached to the known, one is dead.

Life can only be lived dangerously - it is impossible to live in any other way. It is only through danger that life grows and comes to maturity. One has to be an adventurer, always willing to risk the known for the unknown. This is what it means to be a seeker. But, having once experienced the joys of freedom and fearlessness, a person never repents, because he knows what the optimum of life means. Now he knows what it means to light the torch of life on both sides. And a single moment of such intensity brings more fulfillment than an eternity of mediocre life.

Osho

Every cave you fear to enter has something you seek. Joseph Campbell

Remember, if you are scared, it means they want to control. Make guilty - the same thing. Applicable both privately and globally.

I look at people. They are very afraid, but I see no reason, because they do not risk anything. They are like a naked person who never bathes in the river because he is afraid that there will be no place to dry his clothes.

--- Kabir ---

The reality of fear

Why spoil your life now with fear of the future? It is foolish (…) to feel unhappy because one day you will become unhappy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)

Love is stronger than fear, but it is the fear of losing love that strengthens it. Inessa Sant

All your fears have come to show you that place in you where Love is not nurtured. Turn to your fear, listen to it, understand what it points to. Thank him. Grow Love, where it has not yet grown. And the fear will go away, having fulfilled its mission.

All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage and something great is bound to happen!

Fear is a waste of time.

Man replaces most of the human emotions with fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the realization that something else can be more important than fear.

A model for dealing with fear and healing from it: you need to find a wise and calm healing force, agree to perform a difficult task - to penetrate into an unknown area of \u200b\u200bthe soul, recognize delusions, calm your old obsessive thoughts and feelings, enter into trust in the great compassionate Self, realize the stormy side of the compassionate soul.

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