“If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. “In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” “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.”
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” “Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. “The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.” “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” RELATED: 145 Words of Encouragement (Uplifting and Positive Quotes) “Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.” “In time we hate that which we often fear.” “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” “Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” “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.” “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.” “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” “Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” “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.” “To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “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.” “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” “Where no hope is left, is left no fear.” “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”’ “We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” “Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.” “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. “ Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.” To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” “People living deeply have no fear of death.” Here are 73 thought-provoking, practically helpful and motivating quotes on fear. So in this article I’d like to share timeless and time-tested wisdom from the people that walked this earth long before us (and from a few that are still here with us). Learning to handle fear and overcome it – even if that’s sometimes just for 10 or 30 seconds so you can take an important action – is critical to living your life fully. That keeps us from getting what we want and becoming who we honestly deep down want to be. Sometimes it’s a very helpful thing that keeps us from harm.īut many times it’s an inner voice and barrier that keeps us stuck.