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How to Overcome Fears and Be Courageous

12/7/2021

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“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe (Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986))
 
“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
 
“Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, “I conquered my fear! Yes!” and calmly walk away. I was inspired.” -Nathan Fillion
 
“Find out what you are afraid of, face it, then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.” -Author Unknown
 
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and focus on what could go right.” -Author Unknown
 
“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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))
 
“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” -Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)) at www.SusanJeffers.com
 
“You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” -Arianna Huffington
 
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” -Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)
 
“Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.” -Karl A. Menninger (Karl Augustus Menninger (1893 - 1990))
 
“We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.” -Will Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
 
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change . . . I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back.” -Erica Jong
 
“The only way to conquer fear is to keep doing the thing you fear to do.” -Author Unknown
 
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
  
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
 
“Do what you are afraid to do.” -Mary Emerson (Mary Moody Emerson (1774 - 1863))
 
“The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” -Robert G. Ingersoll (Robert Green ‘Bob’ Ingersoll (1833 - 1899))
 
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
 
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it’s strengthened by use.” -Ruth Gordon (Ruth Gordon Jones (1896 - 1985))
 
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves.” -Bonaro Overstreet (Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet (1902 - 1985))
 
“Courage follows action.” -Mack R. Douglas
 
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say for yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))
 
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” -James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
 
“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897), ‘Is Life Worth Living?’
 
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
 
“Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000)): “You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought” (1988), page 82
 
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ’23 February 1944’
 
“Let your courage inspire the world around you.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975)
 
“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987) is the title of a book by Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)) at www.SusanJeffers.com
 
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))
 
“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. Only I will remain.” -Frank Herbert
 
“Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
 
“Never take counsel of your fears.” -Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845)
 
“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.” -Mark Rutherford
 
“Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“One person’s courage will help the other person to be equally brave.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
 
“An ounce of action can crush a ton of fear.” -Tim Fargo (Timothy Edward ‘Tim’ Fargo (born 1961))
 
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn C. Barrick
 
“Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie (born 1945)
 
“To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
 
“Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent . . . It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special.” -Catherine Britton
 
“Better hazard once than always be in fear.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
 
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays: First Series” (1841), ‘Heroism,’ page 137
 
“Live in your hopes and not in your fears.” -Johnny Majors
 
“You will find that most of the reasons you are afraid to do something, are exactly the reasons why you should.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant H. McGill (born 1969))
 
“Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.” -Author Unknown
 
“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened anymore.” -A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie-the-Pooh” (1926)
 
“When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of, and soon you will lose your fear of it.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
 
“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Epistle 13: On Groundless Fears”
 
“Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.” -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Knowledge is the antidote for fear.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
 
“Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne (pseudonym of Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison (1907 - 1979)))
 
“Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life’s most important battle - he defeated the fear of trying.” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))
 
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Mary Schmich: ‘Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young’ column published in the “Chicago Tribune” (1 June 1997) newspaper, Page 4C
 
“May you always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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