37 Quotes About Fear And Getting Through It

37 Quotes About Fear And Getting Through It

Fear can grip you. Own you. Paralyze you.

If you let it. It takes a lot to be able to move forward with your life when you’re living in fear. It can make you doubt everything you believe in and stop you from moving forward. But if you settle your nerves and find the courage that is within you, you can do amazing things. Dive into these 37 awesome quotes about fear so you can get through any obstacle that confronts you.

Do one thing every day that scares you. | Eleanor Roosevelt

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. | Salvador Dalí

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. | Plato

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. | Franz Kafka

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity. | Paulo Coelho

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

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. | Marcus Aurelius

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. | Sigmund Freud

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

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. | Dan Brown

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

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. | Veronica Roth

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. | Woody Allen

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. | J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination. | Cornelia Funke

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without fear there cannot be courage. | Christopher Paolini

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. | Aristotle

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t. | Lemony Snicket

Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. | Chuck Palahniuk

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. | Joseph Campbell

In time we hate that which we often fear. | William Shakespeare

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. | Audre Lorde

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. | Laurell K. Hamilton

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. | Bruce Lee

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. I went into the room and shot my fear in the face. | Lady Gaga

Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual. | Alfred Hitchcock

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. | Paulo Coelho

Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him. | George R.R. Martin

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. | Erica Jong

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. | John Steinbeck

You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. | Michelle Obama

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. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. | John Lennon

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it. | Pittacus Lore

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. | François de La Rochefoucauld

Courage is knowing what not to fear. | Plato

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