Life Management Insights

Fear Management- 2

• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. --John F. Kennedy
• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. --George Bernard Shaw
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin
• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. --Bertrand Russell
• Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. --Harry S Truman 
• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. --Marie Curie
• Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. --Bible, Hebrews 
• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. --Maya Angelou
• One of the great 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
• One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does Success consist. --Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. --Nelson Mandela
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. --Shakespeare
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. --John Steinbeck
• Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business. -- Brian Tracy
• Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. --Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
• Successful people are not afraid to fail. --Unknown
• Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. --Unknown
• The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -Oscar Wilde
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll 
• The only person worse than a quitter is one who is afraid to begin. --Unknown
• The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. --Richard M. DeVos
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. --Franklin D. Roosevelt, 
• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. --Orison Swett Marden
• The secret of Success is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. --Thucydides
• 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. --Sir Hugh Walpole
• To dream anything that you want to dream. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. --Unknown
• To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. --Confucius Analects
• To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. --Bacon
• Truth fears no questions. --Unknown
• We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. --Eleanor Roosevelt
• We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. --James W. Fulbright
• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. --Maxwell Maltz
• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. --Unknown
• When proof is possible, faith is impossible. --Unknown
• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. --Eric Hoffer
• You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose. --Charles A. Lynch
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I've 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
• You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. --Dolly Parton

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