Fear is real. But when you face it, take action.

Here are 14 quotes that will change how you see fear:

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”- Baruch Spinoza

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,- always do what you are afraid to do.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Fear is the product of ignorance, and in its initial stages it is not the product of wrong thinking.”- Alice Baily

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”– Frank Herbert

“Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.”- Frank Herbert

“I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.”- Frank Herbert

“Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”- Frank Herbert

“Not living in fear is a gift, because certainly these days we do it so much.”– Stephen Colbert

“You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time- of anything.”- Stephen Colbert

“To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear.”- Dag Hammarskjold

“Guilt is the result of fear…”- Benjamin Creme

“Fear makes you always, always hold something back.”- phillip K. Dick

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”- Suzy Kassem

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”– James Thurber

“Fear is the great destroyer.”- Jean-Luc Picard

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.”- First Epistle of John

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”- Marie Curie

“If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely.”– Phillip K. Dick

“The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”- First Epistle of John

“Everybody’s afraid, but to do your job in combat you have to put your fear down.”- George S. Patton

“Fear … can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy.”- Phillip K. Dick

“If you’re not afraid in combat, you’re either a fool or a liar.”- George S. Patton