Conquering Fear Quotes

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

No hero is above fear.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.