Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. (Unknown)

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, 1888-1955 American Author Trainer)

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. (Clare Booth Luce)

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. (Unknown)

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin)

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)

Dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening and live each day as if there were no tomorrow. (Ancient Irish Proverb)

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. (Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine)

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. (James F. Bell, American Educator)

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bare defeat without losing heart. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it. (Lt. John B. Putnam Jr, 1921-1944)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. (Thucydides)

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them. (Bob Hoffman, American Peak Performance Consultant Author)

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. (Les Brown, 1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer)

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. (Betty Bender)

We must travel in the direction of our fear. (John Berryman, 1914-1972 American Poet)

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. (Les Brown, 1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer)

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. (Jack Canfield, American Motivational Speaker Author Trainer)

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author)

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce. (Unknown)

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. (Ed Foreman, American Motivational Lecturer Writer)

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. (Jerry Gillies, American Author Speaker)

Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them. (Bob Hoffman, American Peak Performance Consultant Author)

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, 1884-1962 American First Lady Columnist Lecturer Humanitarian)

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. (Robert H. Schuller, 1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader)

Do what you fear and fear disappears. (David J. Schwartz, American Trainer Author of The Magic of Thinking Big)

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. (Les Brown, 1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer)

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. (James F. Bell, American Educator)

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. (Les Brown, 1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer)

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. (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955 American Author Trainer)

Do what you fear most and you control fear. (Tom Hopkins, American Sales Trainer Speaker Author)

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. (Doug Horton)

Great fear is concealed under daring. (F. L. Lucan, 39-65 Roman Epic Poet)

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. (Frederick Smith, American Businessman Founder of Federal Express)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens, 1882-1950 Irish Poet Author)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1895 Scottish Essayist Poet Novelist)

Action conquers fear. (Peter Nivio Zarlenga, American Businessman Founder of Blockbuster Videos)

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right. (Unknown)

To him who is determined it remains only to act. (Italian Proverb)

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1855-1919 American Poet Journalist)

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now! (Unknown)

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. (Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 Polish-born British Novelist)

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. (W. Clement Stone, 1902 American Businessman Author)

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. (Lady Bird Johnson)

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. (John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 British Economist)

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. (Zora Neale Hurston, 1903-1960 American Novelist)

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. (Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899 American Orator Lawyer)