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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

— Ingrid Betancourt

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

— Joy Page

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

— Cynthia Weil

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

— Mark Twain

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

— Peter McWilliams

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

— Ronda Rousey

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

— Eckhart Tolle

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

— Tom Hopkins

I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

— Josh Homme

✗Opposing Perspectives

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

— Calvin Klein

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