45 Quotes About Letting Go of Fear

Having a healthy dose of fear can actually benefit you in achieving successes throughout life. However, too much fear can be destructive and discourage you from moving ahead. These quotes about letting go of fear will encourage you to pick and choose the challenges you take on.

“And in those first fifty years I believed there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and it was my goal to find that pot of gold.”

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”

“Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.”

“Fear and Love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.”

“Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind.”

“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”

“Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one’s self.”

“Forgiveness is the letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

“Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it.”

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

“I can be of no real help to another unless I see that the two of us are in this together, that all of our differences are superficial and meaningless, and that only the countless ways we are alike has any importance at all.”

“I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.”

“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.”

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”

“In making practical application of the material covered in this book to everyday solutions, it will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal.”

“In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.”

“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.”

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

“Love is the total absence of fear, Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”

“Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.”

“Most of us are confused about what is real.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

“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.”

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

“Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.”

“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.”

“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“The Course states that there are only two emotions: love and fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures.”

“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working.”

“There are only two emotions: one is Love and the other is fear. Love is our true reality. Fear is something our mind has made up, and is therefore unreal.”

“This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.”

“To give is to receive—this is the law of Love. Under this law, when we give our Love away to others we gain, and whatever we give we simultaneously receive.”

“Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself.”

“We are always expressing either Love or fear. Fear is really a call for help, and therefore a request for Love.”

“We can suffer economic loss and see it as an opportunity for a spiritual transformation.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“What we experience is our state of mind projected outward.”

“When we find ourselves irritated, depressed, angry, or ill, we can be sure we have chosen the wrong goal and are responding to fear.”

“You can be right or you can be happy.”

“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 to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Letting go of your fear and what is holding you back will encourage you to take more risks in your life.