Fear Quotes

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  

Mary Manin Morrissey

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. 

Dostoyevsky

I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. 

J.D. Salinger

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. 

John Keats

Go back a little to leap further. 

John Clarke

I failed my way to success. 

Thomas Edison

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. 

Les Brown

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. 

Elmer Davis

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

Erica Jong

Do not let your fears choose your destiny.
Author Unknown

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. 

Norman Vincent Peale

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. 

Mary Ferguson

Where fear is, happiness is not. 

Seneca

Do what you fear most and you control fear. 

Tom Hopkins

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy. 

Denis Waitley

There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you. Leave it there. 

Donna Favors

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. 

Jerry Gille

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. 

Arthur Ashe

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

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Author Unknown

Always do what you are afraid to do. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. 

W. Clement Stone

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.

The key to change….is to let go of fear. 

Rosanne Cash

Somebody should tell us…right at the start of our lives…that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. 

Michael Landon

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  

Usman B. Asif

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  

Author Unknown

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation  is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

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

Katherine Paterson

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  Brendan Francis

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.  

Henry S. Haskins

Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.  

Orison Swett Marden

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do. 

George Balanchine

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves. We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness–so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. 

Peter Williams

"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. 

Taylor Swift

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Only I will remain. 

Frank Herbert

Start a huge, foolish project like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. 

Rumi

To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it–to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation–this is the only thing. 

Henry James

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is  more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

We are all of us failures–at least, the best of us are. 

James Barrie

Where ever fear shadows…. that always means there is a light shining somewhere. 

Jonathan Santos

That feeling isn't fear, it's just telling you to MOVE !! 

Rancid

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. 

E Hubbard

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. 

Bill Cosby

A mind focused on doubt and fear cannot focus on the journey to victory. 

Mike Jones

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