Inspirations

Only your mind can produce fear.

- A Course In Miracles

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

- Marian Anderson

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

- Jean Anouilh

''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

- Arthur Ashe

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

- Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

- Francis Bacon

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

- James F Bell

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

- Betty Bender

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

- Arthur Christopher Benson

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

- John Berryman

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid.

- Matthew 14:27, Bible

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

- Otto Von Bismarck

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

- Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

- Ray Bradbury

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

- Francis H Bradley

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

- Les Brown

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

- Les Brown

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

- Les Brown

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

- Jean Bryant

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

- Buddha

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Edmund Burke

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

- Jack Canfield

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

- Thomas Carlyle

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

- Dale Carnegie

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

- Ching Ning Chu

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

- Winston Churchill

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

- Claudius Claudianus

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

- Roger Craig

A fighter has to know fear.

- Cus D'Amato

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

- Cus D'Amato

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, ''Are you scared, too?'' ''You bet your sweet life I am.'' ''Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too.'' We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, ''Who else feels like this?'' the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

- Stan Dale

Fear is the biggest motivator.

- Bill Dixon

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

- John Dryden

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''

- Andrea Dworkin

He without fear is king of the world.

- E E Eddison

Always do what you are afraid to do.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear always springs from ignorance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

- Epictetus

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

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

- Ed Foreman

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Viktor E Frankl

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

- Robert Frost

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

- Jerry Gillies

Fear guides more than gratitude.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

- Grace Hansen

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

- Joan C Harvey

Fear is the mind killer

- Frank Herbert

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

- Hermann Hesse

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

- Napoleon Hill

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

- Napoleon Hill

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

- Bob Hoffman

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

- Tom Hopkins

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

- Doug Horton

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

- Zora Neale Hurston

Never take counsel of your fears.

- Andrew Jackson

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Susan Jeffers

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

- Lady Bird Johnson

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

- Samuel Johnson

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

- Samuel Johnson

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

- Eli Stanley Jones

Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F Kennedy

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

- John Maynard Keynes

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

- Soren Kierkegaard

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

- Billie Jean King

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

- Lucius C Lactantius

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

- Titus Livy

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

- H P Lovecraft

Great fear is concealed under daring.

- F L Lucan

Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''

- Alexander Maclaren

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

- Maxwell Maltz

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 Swett Marden

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

I have a fear of failure.

- Joe Montana

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

- Siddha Nagarjuna

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

- Earl Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

- Florence Nightingale

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

- Patricia Nixon

People react to fear, not love, they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

- Richard M Nixon

No Fear.

- No Fear Company

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

- James Northcote

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

- George S Patton

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

- Jean Paul

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

- Proverb

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

- French Proverb

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

- Hasidic Proverb

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

- Moorish Proverb

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

- Swedish Proverb

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

- Ruth E Renkel

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each 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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

Fear makes men believe the worst.

- Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.

- Paul R Scheele

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

- Robert H Schuller

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

- David J Schwartz

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

- Seneca

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

- Seneca

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

- Seneca

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

- Frederick Smith

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

- Julia Sorel

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

- James Stephens

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

- Publilius Syrus

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live�

- Dorothy Thompson

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

- Virgil Thomson

People die of fright and live of confidence.

- Henry David Thoreau

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

- Source Unknown

Fear is what kills us.

- Source Unknown

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

- Source Unknown

All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

- Source Unknown

Fear is proof of a low born soul.

- Virgil

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

- Edward Weeks

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

- Woodrow T Wilson

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

- William Wrigley Jr.

Action conquers fear.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 7: Develop Emotional Maturity

Only your mind can produce fear.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

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

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

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.

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

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

A fighter has to know fear.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''

He without fear is king of the world.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

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.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Fear is the mind killer

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Never take counsel of your fears.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.