Famous Quotes about Fear (200 Quotations)

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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.

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each 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 mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.