Top 100 Overcoming Fear Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I am stronger than fear.”

— Malala Yousafzai

52. “I let go of all fear and doubt, and life becomes simple and easy for me.”

— Louise Hay

53. “Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear – it means we refuse to be overcome by it.”

— Steven Furtick

54. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

56. “Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Neil Gaiman

57. “If you have no fear, no one has power over you.”

— John Maeda

58. “The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”

— Rick Warren

59. “Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

60. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

— Audre Lorde

61. “If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve.”

— Emily Dickinson

62. “Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.”

— Dale Carnegie

63. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

64. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

— Aristotle

65. “Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

66. “Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

67. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

— Arthur Koestler

68. “Don’t be afraid to ask the ‘dumb’ question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!”

— Sheryl Sandberg

69. “Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.”

— Joel Osteen

70. “I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears.”

— Louise Hay

71. “Face your fears, endure their pain, and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.”

— Greg Plitt

72. “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.”

— Cus D'Amato

73. “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

74. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

75. “What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”

— Erin Hanson

76. “A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”

— Baz Luhrmann

77. “The biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

— Mellody Hobson

78. “Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Jim Morrison

80. “At some point in life you have to face your fears.”

— Eric Thomas

81. “A scared world needs a fearless church.”

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

82. “Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.”

— Neil Gaiman

83. “If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.”

— Sydney Banks

84. “Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

— Veronica Roth

85. “Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

— Douglas Horton

86. “Being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”

— Taylor Swift

87. “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

88. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”

— Sarah J. Maas

89. “Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”

— Max Lucado

90. “Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.”

— Joan of Arc

91. “Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

92. “Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality.”

— Jared Leto

93. “As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

— Chanakya

94. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

— Seth Godin

95. “I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.”

— Dallin H. Oaks

96. “Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

97. “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson

98. “Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.”

— Taylor Swift

99. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”

— Caroline Myss

100. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

— Arianna Huffington