Facing Fear Quotes

• 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.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2013

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Facing your fears robs them of their power.

  Mark Burnett

  Inspirational, Strength, Fear

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  Marianne Williamson

  Greatest Fear, Fabulous, Brilliant

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of 'A Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, Ch. 7, Section 3, 1992.

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Fear, Women

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  Stephen King

  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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• When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Scare, Overcoming Fear

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 16, 2012

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• Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Fear

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

  William Allen White

  Positive, Encouraging, Time

  "Vice President Joe Biden's Commencement speech at WFU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• 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

  Inspirational, Fear, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Dec 26, 2012

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring 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.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Past

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• FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

  Frank Herbert

  Fear, Fantasy Novels, Scary

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Heart, Grieving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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