Overcoming Fear Quotes - Page 3

On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

On the road to success there is absolutely no room for criticism of self or others. Insecurity and fear masquerade as jealousy and judgment. Finding faults in others wastes time as we attempt to remove the bricks from other people’s foundations – time that could be better spent building our own. And worrying about what other people think about us also wastes the time that could be better spent expanding upon what we have built.

Alaric Hutchinson

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like a snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

Nawal El-Saadawi

You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

The fear of taking a shot at anything in life, lives in the fact that there are no guaranteed outcomes and this notion sadly, paralyzes so many from ever taking a chance, because they can never be certain enough. It's important to understand that the fear will always be there, that's what makes us humans, and those of us that end of leading successful and fulfilled lives have just learned to better tame and dance with that fear more than others.

One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it “you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master.” I look into the monster’s eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

Vironika Tugaleva

The medicine to fear, these days, is a dose of reality! Because these days the reality is far worse than the disembodiment of the ideal. People today are afraid of the disembodiment of the ideal, because they think the ideal is the reality. A rabbit that does not know it lives in the ground with snakes, is constantly afraid of the sea hawk possibly finding its way to land, to destroy the rabbit’s meadowy existence. In the meadow, living in fear of the sea hawk, not knowing the hole in the ground next to its burrow belongs to a snake. I show the rabbit where the snakes are, thus eliminating its hazardous fear. Misplaced fear is hazardous fear. Fear well placed is a skill for survival.

Fear never scaled one mountain, never stepped up on a stage, never accepted a challenge, never tilled new ground, never walked in a race; he never even dared to dream. Fear failed to slay a single dragon. Remember this before you choose to keep his company.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.

Osho

When you're scared, you stay as you are!

Stephen Richards

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Epictetus

The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of women have to do with losing while the fears of men have to do with not being good enough for something. One is loss, the other is insecurity. Men are innately more insecure than women and women are innately more needful of companionship than men. It's good for both men and women to be able to recognize and identify these fears not only within themselves, but within each other, and then men and women will see that they really do need to help each other. It's not a game, it's not a competition, the two sexes need one another.

Don’t be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!

There is no illusion greater than fear.

Lao Tzu

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.