Overcoming Fear Quotes
We've selected the very best quotes on fear and overcoming fear, from a huge number of sources. Here are great quotes from renowned leaders, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Dale Carnegie, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Mark Twain Quote on Courage and Fear:
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
"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. "
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. "
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; itÂ’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. "
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
"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."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. "
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here."
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
"A mind focused on doubt and fear cannot focus on the journey to victory."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."