“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“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
“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.”
Rosa Parks
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
“Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.”
James Hastings
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.”
Aeschylus
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Andre Gide
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
Plato
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Shirley Maclaine
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?”
Les Brown
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
“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
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t fear, just live right.”
Neal A. Maxwell
“Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.”
David Seasbury
“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. 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.”
Steve Jobs
