Quotes on Overcoming Fear

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

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

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?

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

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.