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Insightful Fear Quotes To Help You Conquer Your Fears

Fear is generally viewed as a negative trait and is generally associated with cowardice. However, this isn’t true in all situations. Many times, fear is good as it allows you to introspect the right and wrong of a situation. It allows you to think beyond what you have been taught. It is a natural response and is vital to one’s development as a child into a full-developed human being. However, many times, you also need to overcome fear and not be afraid of the things that you want to do. It could be just about anything—applying for a new job, decided to bungee jump, or even confessing your feelings. In situations like this, fear takes hostage of your mind. It is best to not let it fester and take the risk to avoid any regrets in the future. You can go through these insightful quotes and get that fire up in your belly to conquer your fears.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

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

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

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

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

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

Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Rumi

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Ben Okri

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.

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

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

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

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton

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.

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

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
Henry Van Dyke

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Alexandre Dumas

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
David Byrne

I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.
August Wilson

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh