Top 100 Fear Overcoming Quotes
#1. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Richie Norton
#2. I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
Baba Amte
#3. Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on
and accepting them as they really are.
Kat Von D.
#4. Courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.
Jodi Picoult
#5. One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old.
Donald A. Norman
#6. 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
#7. I would like to be able to say that I came back from this by just simply getting up from the sofa and rolling up my sleeves ... but I didn't. I could not even take things days by day. In realistic terms I fought to make it through the day - 5 minutes at a time.
Gisela Hausmann
#8. Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!
Cheri Huber
#10. Embracing life and overcoming fear are one and the same.
Bryant McGill
#11. Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.
John B. Webster
#12. When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
Laura Wilkinson
#15. I will not die an unlived life ... I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me ... I choose to risk my significance.
Dawna Markova
#16. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
Seth Godin
#17. To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
Richie Norton
#18. It's okay to be afraid. Just don't let it get the best of you. If you do, it will slowly creep inside you until you're completely paralyzed. Fear has that effect, unless you bravely face it head-on. When you accept fear, it actually makes you stronger.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#19. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
#20. Face your fears and you will be able to conquer them.
Bohdi Sanders
#21. When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.
Stephen Richards
#22. If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
Colleen Houck
#23. Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.
Summer Sanders
#25. The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
Oswald Chambers
#26. Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.
Elizabeth Strout
#27. I feel like every project that I've been doing, I've learned something about myself. It's like I've cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider. I'm just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
Agyness Deyn
#29. If we know what can happen in a minute will could have avoid all tragedies.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.
Frederick Lenz
#32. The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.
Anthony Hopkins
#33. When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.
Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
#34. Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.
Shirin Ebadi
#37. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
Frederick Lenz
#38. One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it "you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master." I look into the monster's eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#39. It's OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you're about to do something really, really brave.
Mandy Hale
#40. If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
Joyce Rachelle
#41. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.
Jonathan Bailey
#42. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
Emma Watson
#43. Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.
Nathan Fillion
#44. You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It's the bravest act of all.
Toni Sorenson
#46. Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?
Gina Greenlee
#47. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. Fear is your brains way of protecting you,
overcoming fear is the souls way of loving you
Steven Aitchison
#50. Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.
Connie Kerbs
#51. Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.
Russell M. Nelson
#52. Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.
Rory Vaden
#54. The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.
Carmen Ejogo
#56. I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
David Archuleta
#57. I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear
Gore Verbinski
#58. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#60. The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
Bertrand Russell
#62. No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)
Bill Willingham
#63. 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
#64. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
#65. The practice of overcoming hope is recognizing our positive qualities. With excessive hope, we begin to belittle what we have achieved. We might then feel inadequate and have fear of not achieving more.
Sakyong Mipham
#66. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#67. If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
Thomas Merton
#68. Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
Jane Fonda
#69. Overcoming fear - of any sort - allows one to open up to the flow of opportunities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#70. In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.
Steve Harvey
#71. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#72. If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.
Butch Bellah
#73. To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
Brian Tracy
#75. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
Tommy Franks
#76. The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.
Roger Cohen
#77. For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
#79. Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.
Daisaku Ikeda
#80. The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#81. Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.
John Novak
#82. Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.
Robert Kiyosaki
#83. Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.
Geoff Johns
#84. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#86. 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
#87. Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.
Mark Victor Hansen
#88. 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
#89. Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.
Victor Robert Lee
#90. Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting a different viewpoint on things.
Geoff Johns
#91. If it is going to kill you," Enso Roshi says, "then let it kill you.
T. Scott McLeod
#92. Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#94. I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.
Jerry Goldsmith
#95. Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
Seth Godin
#96. I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.
Geoff Johns
#97. Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
Karl A. Menninger
#98. Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.
Natalie Babbitt
#100. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
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