Inspiring Quotes about Fear

Fear and panic are really powerful emotions, but they’re not ones that we want to do away with. They evolved to help us as a species to survive, to protect ourselves. While we shouldn’t push them away, we also shouldn’t let them take over our lives. Instead of letting them own us, we should remember we own them. Therefore is Fear is contagious then so is COURAGE. Here are some powerful quotes to embrace Fear to get to Courage and own it.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”― Plato

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ― Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.” ― Marie Curie

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

“Without fear there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ― Aristotle

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”― Joseph Campbell

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”― Rudyard Kipling

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”― Rumi

“But fear doesn’t need doors and windows. It works from the inside.”― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”― Edmund Burke

"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." ― Usman B. Asif

“Fear is the thief of dreams.”― Brian Krans

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”― Jack Canfield

“Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.”― Jimmy Stewart

"You can be strong as a leader and be kind. You can be courageous as a leader and show fear." ― Sonia McDonald

About Sonia

Sonia McDonald is the CEO and founder of LeadershipHQ and McDonald Inc. Sonia is a in demand keynote speaker, leadership coach and advisor, author and facilitator.

She believes we should lead with kindness and courage, from the heart, doing rather than telling and is known for her mantra ‘just lead’. She leads by example in all these areas and through her one on one practical coaching, leadership training for teams and organisations encourages others to do the same. Sonia has helped hundreds of people on their leadership journey to become the best version of themselves and in turn, inspire and bring out the best in others. Also she and her team have worked and partnered with a number of businesses and companies for over a decade build great leadership teams and cultures.

For more than 25 years, Sonia has been on the front lines of Human Resources, Leadership and People and Culture. She has held leadership positions worldwide and through experience, research and study come to realise what it takes to be a truly great leader.

Sonia has an ability to speak bravely and authentically about her own development as a leader, personal and career challenges in a way which resonates with her audience. She is recognised as a LinkedIn influencer and has become an in-demand keynote speaker, starts important conversations.

She is an award-winning published author of Leadership Attitude and Just Rock It! and writes regularly for publications such as The Australian, HRD Magazine, Smart Healthy Women and Women’s Business Media. Sonia has become recognised for her commentary around the topic of leadership, championing the up and coming leaders of tomorrow, advocating for women in business as well as building leaders in small business.

Keynote Topics for 2020

Sonia will give you peace of mind when booking a speaker. She is a proven world-class professional speaker with the skills to “rock an audience”. Her energy, empathy, kindness, sensitivity, and humour will enhance any event she appears.

1. Leadership Attitude
2. Just Rock It
3. First Comes Courage
4. Courage is Impact
5. Courage is Purpose
6. Courage is Resilience
7. Courage is Kindness

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