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This page includes inspirational quotations concerning fear. Most of you who visit this website are most likely sufferers of an anxiety disorder or other mental health problem and are therefore no strangers to the debilitating emotion of fear, which for many is a constant but unwanted companion. It is my hope that these quotations will bring comfort, inspiration and insight. The first was sent by Sue a suffer of OCD, the author is unknown:

FEAR stands for--- False Evidence Appearing Real.
author  unknown

Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers, From the book of the same title.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Mark Twain

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie

I've been terrified every day of my life but that's never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keefe

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. Doubt has killed more splendid projects, shattered more ambitious schemes, strangled more effective geniuses, neutralized more superb efforts, blasted more fine intellects, thwarted more splendid ambitions than any other enemy of the human race.
James Allen

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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