50+ Positive Inspirational Fear Quotes to Empower Your Courage

"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."

- George R.R. Martin

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up"

- Veronica Roth

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing."

- Emma Donoghue

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

- Leigh Bardugo

"Fear has its use, but cowardice has none."

- Gandhi

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

- Bertrand Russell

"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

- Napoleon Hill

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

- Susan Jeffers

"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

"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

"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

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Babe Ruth

"I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...."

- Erica Jong

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

- Billy the Kid

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

- John Lennon

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear."

- Gandhi

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"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."

- Frank Herbert

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"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

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

"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, 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 won't 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's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

- Helen Keller

"Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it."

- Judy Blume

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another."

- Katherine Paterson

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."

- Virgil Thomson

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."

- Mary Ferguson

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Where fear is, happiness is not."

- Seneca

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do."

- Henry Ford

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"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

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time"

- Brené Brown

"Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back."

- Babe Ruth

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."

- Brene Brown

"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

- Yoda

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

- Bill Cosby

"The key to change… is to let go of fear."

- Roseanne Cash

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

- Amy March

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t give into your fears, if you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

"There is no illusion greater than fear."

- Lao Tzu

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift."

- Dante Alighieri

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

- Dan Brown

"What do you fear, lady? A cage, to stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John Rockefeller

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

- Zig Ziglar

"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."

- Japanese Proverb

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

- Yoda

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them."

- Epictetus

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

- Napoleon Hill

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

- Francis Chan

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

- Marie Curie

"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

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

- Salvador Dali

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

- Antoine de Saint

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

- ANAIS NIN

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

- William Feather

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

"FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Face Everything And Rise."