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I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.
Sep 10, 2025
If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.
If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
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.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn't know how to swim. It was like, "Conquer your fear and just get on with it." It must have made an impact on me.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
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.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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.'