Overcoming Fear Quotes

God's grace is your inner strength.Go ahead and pursue your God-given dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.

~ Dan Pearce

Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self realisation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.

~ Shannon L. Alder

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

~ Aberjhani

Sonnet: Political GreatnessNor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts,Shepherd those herds whom tyranny makes tame;Verse echoes not one beating of their hearts,History is but the shadow of their shame,Art veils her glass, or from the pageant startsAs to oblivion their blind millions fleet,Staining that Heaven with obscene imageryOf their own likeness. What are numbers knitBy force or custom? Man who man would be,Must rule the empire of himself; in itMust be supreme, establishing his throneOn vanquished will, quelling the anarchyOf hopes and fears, being himself alone.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you want to catch your dreams, you have to drop your fears.

~ Anton Rubaclini

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

~ Lorde

You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

~ Matthew J. Kirby

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am more than my scars.

~ Andrew Davidson

Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.”Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I know a little something about fear, honey. I know what a relief it feels like to give into it at first. It’s not hard to persuade yourself that you’re doing the right thing—that you’re making the smart, safe decision. But fear is insidious. It takes anything you’re willing to give it, the parts of your life you don’t mind cutting out, but when you’re not looking, it takes anything else it damn well pleases, too.

~ Andrea Lochen

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)

~ Bill Willingham

When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.

~ Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

~ Stephen Richards

Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.

~ Connie Kerbs

Remember, adjusting your mindset for success is, at least, half the battle of anything. In the case of overcoming our fear instead of it overcoming us – is more like 99% of a war waged in our head.~ Connie Kerbs

~ Connie Kerbs

It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.

~ Dan Pearce

When the week begins, try your best to let your best overcome your worst and that is the best. Do your best to have a good week and never be weak in the week.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we know what can happen in a minute will could have avoid all tragedies.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita