Top 100 Overcoming Fear Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every 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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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2. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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3. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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4. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

— Brian Tracy

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5. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

— Les Brown

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6. “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.”

— Dale Carnegie

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7. “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”

— Stephen King

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8. “Fear is the mind-killer.”

— Frank Herbert

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9. “Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.”

— Les Brown

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10. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

— Joyce Meyer

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11. “Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid.”

— Joyce Meyer

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12. “Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’”

— Swami Vivekananda

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13. “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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14. “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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15. “Life begins where fear ends.”

— Osho

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16. “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.

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17. “We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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18. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

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19. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”

— Emma Donoghue

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20. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

— Stephen King

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21. “Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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22. “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

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23. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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24. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”

— Jay-Z

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25. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

— Winston Churchill

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26. “Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.”

— Wilma Mankiller

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27. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

— Suzanne Collins

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28. “You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.”

— Sarah J. Maas

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29. “When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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30. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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31. “We can’t be brave without fear.”

— Muhammad Ali

32. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

— Madonna

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33. “The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.”

— Jack Canfield

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34. “If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there’s no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you’re safe, you’ll never soar!”

— Steve Harvey

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35. “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

— Pope John Paul II

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36. “Be brave, be bold, be free.”

— Angelina Jolie

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37. “People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.”

— Paulo Coelho

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38. “If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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39. “You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

— Benjamin Mee

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40. “Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

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41. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

— Billy Graham

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42. “I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Fighting Quotes, Hero Quotes

43. “The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: ‘What is the worst that could happen?’”

— Tim Ferriss

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44. “Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

45. “As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson

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46. “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

— Maggie Kuhn

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47. “Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.”

— Marianne Williamson

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48. “Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words...”

— Christine Caine

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49. “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.”

— Jim Carrey

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50. “Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

— Donald Miller