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Quotes on fear and finding the strength to move past it. This hand-picked collection brings together 24 of the finest fear quotes ever written — from William Shakespeare, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paulo Coelho and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

— Paulo Coelho

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

— Plato

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

— Paulo Coelho

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

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

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— William Shakespeare

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

— Nelson Mandela

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

— Bertrand Russell

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

— Seneca

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

— Mark Twain

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

— Bertrand Russell

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

— German Proverb

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet.

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