Fear triggers our survival response, fight or flight. That makes it one powerful emotion. So powerful it can overwhelm—it can freeze us. Fight, flight, or freeze. But sometimes fear isn’t real. Today, we don’t have a saber tooth tiger on on tail but fear still dogs us. Are you Frozen with Fear? Here are 14 quotes that will feed you courage.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear Is a Liar
Fear can be essential to our survival but fear is a sneaky devil. It can pick on something small, inconsequential. But it builds slowly. It raises our pulse, makes our palms clammy, our breathing ragged, our bowels feel loose, we CAN. NOT. MOVE. At least that’s what fear tells us.
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
~Unknown
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
~Rudyard Kipling
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
~Brene Brown
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
~Helen Keller
Fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.
~Steve Maraboli
Discover Your Courage
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
~Karl Augustus Menninger
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
~ Japanese Proverb
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
~ Unknown
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain
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
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
~Jen Sincero
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
~Oprah Winfrey
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
~Jack Canfield
Take Action
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.
~Dale Carnegie
Laughter is poison to fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
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
“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
Sometimes, even though you know it’s unfounded, the fear gets too big to handle alone.
Be Free
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~Aristotle
If you need more information about fear, read Psychology Today’s article, Fear. Those of you in the UK may want to read Mental Health’s article, How to Overcome Fear and Anxiety. Or you can read some of my posts:
Are you Frozen with Fear? The 14 Quotes that will feed you courage above may not be all you need to overcome your fears. But it’s a start. Recognize your fears. You are courageous. Get help if you need it. Face your fears and they’ll start to shrink.