190 Fear Quotes That Will Make You More Courageous

Here are 190 of the best fear quotes I could find. And my goal is simple: to inspire you and make you more courageous fast. Enjoy!

Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato Click to tweet

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear. Karen Salmansohn Click to tweet

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. Dante Alighieri Click to tweet

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Suzy Kassem Click to tweet

Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt Click to tweet

Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. May Sarton Click to tweet

Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk Click to tweet

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. Marilyn Ferguson Click to tweet

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson Click to tweet

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. Aristotle Click to tweet

Your mind is small, but your heart is big. Your mind is afraid but your heart is full of love. Maxime Lagacé

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. Alice Walker

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear, emanate love. Ram Dass

See also: hope quotes, failure quotes, pain quotes

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The Best Fear Quotes

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Swami Vivekananda

Fools reject reality and expect things to be different. The wise accept reality and expect the unexpected. Maxime Lagacé

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind – compassion opens it. Dalai Lama

Cease to hope and you will cease to fear. Hecato

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats

Fear is temporary. Regret is forever. Unknown

Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it. Robin Sharma

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. Seneca

The fears we don’t face becomes our limits. Robin Sharma Click to tweet

We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca

Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Jack Canfield

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. Ruth Gendler

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. Oscar Wilde

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live. Robert Greene

Observe yourself. See how you push away unpleasant thoughts, delay important decisions, postpone difficult conversations and avoid hard tasks. Observe how you avoid discomfort and take refuge in comforting distractions. Self observation is the beginning of self transformation. @TheAncientSage

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius

There can be no initiative if one has fear, and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus, etc. Bruce Lee

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter. D. L. Moody

For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin

What Is Fear?

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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chödrön Click to tweet

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.

Fear itself is a creation of your mind. It does not exist independently. Since it is a fabrication, you don’t have to fight it. Just understand it. Understanding is the key to freedom. @TheAncientSage

Fear is the enemy of logic. Frank Sinatra

Fear is a friend of exceptional people. Cus D’Amato Click to tweet

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The Most Famous Fear Quotes

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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller Click to tweet

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’. Dalai Lama

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears. Seneca

Now’s not the time for fear. That comes later. Bane (Batman)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. Michael Jordan

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. W. Clement Stone Click to tweet

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. William Shakespeare

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Martin Luther King Jr

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

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

Do that which you fear to do and the fear will die. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better. Stephen King

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. Steven Wright Click to tweet

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of people walking on it. Robert F. Kennedy

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust. Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali

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Short Fear Quotes

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnson Click to tweet

Move towards what scares you. Tom Bilyeu

Fear is serious. Love is playful. Maxime Lagacé

Being scared is fine. Not taking action is not. Maxime Lagacé

There is no illusion greater than fear. Lao Tzu

Some things are in our control and others not. Epictetus

Hope and fear are the same. The Daily Stoic

A fighter has to know fear. Cus D’Amato

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe

Fear is a mile high, a mile wide, and paper thin. Unknown

Fear is a lie. Unknown

Fear does not stop death. It stops life. Vi Keeland

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average. Taylor Swift

Do what you fear and fear disappears. David Joseph Schwartz

Shatter all your fear. Robin Sharma

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Søren Kierkegaard

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. Aung San Suu Kyi

Don’t let your heart be colonized by fear. Jack Kornfield

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. Sam Snead (Professional golfer)

Fear kills growth. Gary Vaynerchuk

Always do what you’re afraid to do. E. Lockhart Click to tweet

Laughter is poison to fear. George R.R. Martin (Game Of Thrones)

Fear cuts deeper than swords. George R.R. Martin (Game Of Thrones)

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. Emma Donoghue

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Florence Nightingale

Don’t fear, just live right. Neal A. Maxwell

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Inspirational Fear Quotes

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Only when we accept fear will we have freedom. Shane Parrish

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. Dale Carnegie Click to tweet

Action eliminates fear. Headphone up and get shit done. Tom Bilyeu (See also: motivational quotes)

Your choices define you. Don’t let fear be your definition. Tom Bilyeu

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. Tony Robbins

You become wealthy when you stop trying to look rich. You become educated when you stop trying to look smart. You become calm when you stop trying to avoid fear. Maxime Lagacé

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad. Rumi

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. Frank Herbert

You gotta act. And you’ve gotta be willing to fail, you gotta be ready to crash and burn, with people on the phone, with starting a company, with whatever. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far. Steve Jobs

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Swami Vivekananda

Face your fears, pursue your ambitions, and become the hero you are destined to be. Josh Kaufman

Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet. Seneca

Confidence comes from being vulnerable, not by shielding yourself. It is a function of exposure. The more you are exposed to challenges, the more you grow. To grow in confidence, you must first be open to embarrassment. Get your feet wet, there is no other way. @TheAncientSage

Be at one with your fate and give your actions the weight of eternity. Stop wishing for something else to happen, for a different fate. That is to live a false life. Robert Greene

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche (More about “amor fati” or “love of fate” in this YouTube video)

The beautiful thing about fear is, when you run to it, it runs away. Robin Sharma

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. Seth Godin

It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. Pema Chödrön

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do. Tim Ferriss

Sometimes, what we fear the most is what we most need to do. Tim Ferriss

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

Run after your fears. Chase them. Make them shake. And dread the day you gained enough confidence to realize they were full of shit. Thibaut

You don’t need it all figured out. The more you think you do, the more you’ll procrastinate and fear moving forward. Have courage and start now, even if you start small. Thibaut

Don’t fear. Prepare. Don’t fear. Learn. Don’t fear. Build. Don’t fear. Endure. @TheStoicEmperor

All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Swami Vivekananda Click to tweet

It’s believing in our dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond limits. Amy Purdy

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. C. JoyBell C.

Your largest fear carries your greatest growth. Unknown

Fear is a pointer to your next adventure. Unknown

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. Paulo Coelho

If you’re are paralyzed with fear it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. Steven Pressfield

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Seneca

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Deep Fear Sayings

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If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it. Lao Tzu

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire. Seneca Click to tweet

You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That’s the real reason you should admit that you are not wise. Marcus Aurelius

Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli

The only thing you care about when you’re afraid is results. The only thing you care about when you’re calm is doing the right thing. Maxime Lagacé

A hope hides a fear — a fear hides a hope. Unknown

Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Hagakure)

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out our reactivity, which is our attachment, our clinging, to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. Ram Dass

Where there is fear there is obviously no freedom, and without freedom there is no love at all. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear. Seneca

All humans are afraid of the negative feelings that will arrive from situations. Kapil Gupta

How frequently do your thoughts include fear, judgment or simply justify your point of view? Jack Kornfield

Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared. Robert Greene (33 Strategies Of War)

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I’d like to see you in better living conditions. Hafiz Click to tweet

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolo Machiavelli

What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things. Ra’s Al Ghul (Batman)

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. Daniel Keyes

There are two kinds of future concern: desire and fear. They together create a perfect hell. @TheAncientSage

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Bertrand Russell

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. Hunter S. Thompson

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. Bram Stoker (Dracula)

I was set free because my greatest fear has been realised and I was still alive. J.K. Rowling

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

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. Dan Brown

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. Leigh Bardugo

Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Rumi

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See also: 10 Inspiring TED Talks That Will Help You Overcome Your Fears (inc.com)

Wise Fear Sayings And Proverbs

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Danger is very real. But fear is a choice. Will Smith Click to tweet

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln

Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. You can be scared and be brave at the same time. Preethi Kasireddy

Choose hard, not easy. Choose creating, not consuming. Choose focus, not distractions. Choose love, not fear. Maxime Lagacé

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

How does it help… to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them? Seneca

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing. Bruce Lee

Understand your fears. Face your fears. Laugh at your fears. This is the sequence to self-ownership. Adrian Iliopoulos

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation. Alan Cohen

Giving in to anger, fear and suspicion disturbs our minds and our physical well-being, whereas trust and friendship are the basis of society. Dalai Lama

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply. Thich Nhat Hạnh

When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face. Robert Greene

Fear will make you overestimate the enemy and act too defensively. Robert Greene (33 Strategies Of War)

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. Japanese proverb

It’s not fear that gets in our way. We’re all afraid. It’s how we self-protect that moves us away from our integrity. Brené Brown

Life is only that which you live on your own terms. Only that is your life; the rest is not yours. If you are being dictated by others or meekly following them out of fear, you are wasting your only chance at life. @TheAncientSage

Remember: the only enemy you need to fear is your own self – your lack of awareness and loss of control. @TheAncientSage

Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’… The primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead. Seneca

Typically, people don’t overcome their fears because the fears are nebulous and undefined. Tim Ferriss

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important. Tim Ferriss

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle. Sun Tzu

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

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish proverb Click to tweet

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. Arab proverb

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. German proverb

Don’t fear moving forward slowly. Fear standing still. Chinese proverb

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. B.K.S. Iyengar

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident. Max Lucado

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? Confucius

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. William Faulkner

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

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See also: 5 Things You Can Learn From Fear (doyou.com)

Part 3. Conclusion

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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 most 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 does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson Click to tweet

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Bene Gesserit

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