Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. Leland Val Vandewall

• fear
• anger

There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just plain yellow. Ed Cole

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• fear
• silence

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

• fear
• actions

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. James Allen

• attitude
• fear
• failure
• doubt

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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge. James Allen

• fear
• knowledge
• doubt

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

• fear
• risk

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. Pope John Paul II

• fear
• excellence

What worries you masters you. Haddon Robinson

• fear
• worry

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. King Whitney Jr.

• confidence
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• optimism
• change

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

• fear
• wisdom

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard

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It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. Dr. Rob Gilbert

• fear
• performance

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker

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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own. James Allen

• desire
• fear
• passion

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Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything, and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in. James Allen

• purpose
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• goals
• thought
• achievement
• accomplishment
• doubt

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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. James Allen

• will
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• doubt

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Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. James Allen

• purpose
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• thought

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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. Michael Jordan

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt

• courage
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• fear
• risk

Fear is faith in reverse. Zig Ziglar

• fear
• faith

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Cicero

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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Robert Jarvik

• leadership
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A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties. Confucius

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

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There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear. Confucius

• bravery
• fear
• virtue
• wisdom

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Red Auerbach

• sports
• fear

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. William Burnham

• fear
• actions

Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Norman Vincent Peale

• fear
• actions

You're not always going to be successful, but if you're afraid to fail, you don't deserve to be successful. Charles Barkley

• fear
• failure

Courage is about the management of fear, not the absence of fear. Rudy Giuliani

• courage
• fear

Don't let the sensation of fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. John McCain

• courage
• fear

If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. George Patton

• courage
• bravery
• fear

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. Marilyn Barrick

• fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it. William Danforth

• courage
• fear

The two major obstacles to success and achievement are fear and doubt. Brian Tracy

• fear
• success
• doubt

Have you ever seen a negative baby? Children come into the world with no doubts or fears at all. And whatever has been learned can be unlearned through practice and repetition. Brian Tracy

• fear
• affirmations
• doubt

The primary antidotes to doubt and fear are courage and confidence. Brian Tracy

• courage
• confidence
• fear
• doubt

The more you learn what you need to know to achieve your goals, the less fear you will feel on the one hand and the more courage and confidence you will feel on the other. Brian Tracy

• courage
• skill
• confidence
• fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

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• fear

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• courage
• fear

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Marden

• fear

Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. Just as your muscles automatically atrophy from lack of use, so your courage will automatically decay in the absence of conscious conditioning. Steve Pavlina

• courage
• fear

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow. Steve Pavlina

• fear
• self improvement

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. Dale Carnegie

• courage
• fear
• initiative

When you confront your fears and move toward what you are afraid of, your fears diminish while at the same time your self esteem and self confidence increases. Brian Tracy

• self esteem
• confidence
• fear

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. Brian Tracy

• desire
• fear
• success
• subconscious

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of. Viktor Frankl

• fear

To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. John Maxwell

• courage
• bravery
• fear

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. Amelia Earhart

• fear
• goals
• worry

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. Henry Ford

• fear

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. Napoleon Hill

• fear
• habit
• persistence

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage. Napoleon Hill

• fear
• criticism

When you punish your people for making a mistake or falling short of a goal, you create an environment of extreme caution, even fearfulness. In sports it's similar to playing "not to lose" - a formula that often brings on defeat. John Wooden

• leadership
• sports
• fear
• failure
• coaching
• mistakes

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger. Brian Tracy

• fear
• success
• failure
• mistakes

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• fear

The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart

• action
• fear
• decisiveness
• initiative

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

The first is the result of a decision to act - to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it's impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged. Fortune favors the bold.

The second is the result of a decision of sloth - to not do something - wherein we refuse to change a bad situation out of fear despite having all the facts. This is how learning experiences become terminal punishments, bad relationships become bad marriages, and poor job choices become lifelong prison sentences. Timothy Ferriss

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• decisiveness

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Worry is merely a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. The only real antidote to worry is purposeful action. Get so busy doing something about your situation that you don't have time to worry. As you take action, your confidence, courage and sense of control will return and wipe away your fears. Brian Tracy

• action
• fear
• worry

Fear is an emotion manufactured in the imagination. The best proof of this is found by observing the differences in what people are afraid of. If fear was instinctive, genetic, or the product of rational thought, shouldn’t we all fear pretty much the same things? Clancy Cross

• fear

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• fear
• work
• duty
• focus

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

• fear
• understanding

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Roche

• fear

If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Julia Sorel

• fear
• risk
• chance

Let the body avoid discomfort (if it can), and if it feels it, say so. But the soul is what feels fear and pain, and what conceives of them in the first place, and it suffers nothing. Marcus Aurelius

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• pain

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To fear pain is to fear something that's bound to happen, the world being what it is - and that again is blasphemy. While if you pursue pleasure, you can hardly avoid wrongdoing - which is manifestly blasphemous. Marcus Aurelius

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• pain

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Isn't it better to do what's up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn't, like a slave or beggar? And what makes you think the gods don't care about what's up to us.

Start praying like this and you'll see.

Not "some way to sleep with her" - but a way to stop wanting to.

Not "some way to get rid of him" - but a way to stop trying.

Not "some way to save my child" - but a way to lose your fear.

Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens. Marcus Aurelius

• fear
• prayer

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Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? Marcus Aurelius

• fear
• death

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom

• fear
• worry

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. Marianne Williamson

• fear
• love

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. Cus D'Amato

• courage
• bravery
• fear
• heroes

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar Bradley

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• bravery
• fear

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown

• fear
• dreams

For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us. Seneca

• circumstance
• fear

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A man who is feared to his face is hated behind his back. George Horace Lorimer

• leadership
• fear
• hate

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It's mighty seldom that a fellow's afraid of what he ought to be afraid of in this world. George Horace Lorimer

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All men are timid on entering any fight; whether it is the first fight or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. George Patton

• courage
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• fear

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler

• fear

I tell my kids, what is the dif­fer­ence between a hero and a cow­ard? What is the dif­fer­ence between being yel­low and being brave? No dif­fer­ence. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and get­ting hurt. The man who is yel­low refus­es to face up to what he’s got to face. The hero is more dis­ci­plined and he fights those feel­ings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the cow­ard. Peo­ple who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you feel. Cus D'Amato

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• fear

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular?

But conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• courage
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• conscience

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber

• purpose
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Fear spreads fast, it is contagious. Doesn’t have anything to do with IQ. Confidence only comes back one at a time, not en masse. There are periods when fear paralyzes the investment world. You don’t want to owe money at that time, and if you have money then you want to buy at those times. Warren Buffett

• confidence
• investing
• fear

“Stress” is just the achiever word for fear. If I follow the trail of your stress, it'll take me to your deepest fear. Tony Robbins

• fear
• stress

When we are afraid and insecure, we often look for validation by looking for other folks who have done what we would like to do. That is a mistake. Have courage to do something new. Almost every great effort started by carving out a unique lane that everyone else is ignoring. Sal Khan

• fear
• innovation

Anxiety-induced retreat makes everything retreated from more anxiety-inducing. Anxiety-induced retreat makes the self smaller and the ever-more-dangerous world larger. Jordan Peterson

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When we focus on others, on helping them or simply providing a good example, our own personal fears and troubles will diminish. With fear or heartache no longer our primary concern, we don't have time for it. Ryan Holiday

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