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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
- Robert Albert Bloch
- Fear can, though it is not God, create something
from nothing.
- Caspar de Aguilar
- Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily
by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the
mind, they become self-forged chains.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
- Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish,
be educated out.
- Karl A. Menninger
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers
from his fear.
- Michel de Montaigne (1553-1592)
- We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it
into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
- Susan Jeffers
- Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and
without panic; and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
- We probably wouldn't worry about what people
think about us if we knew how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
- What we see depends mainly on what we look
for.
- John Lubbock
- To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
To not dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- The way to develop self-confidence is to do the
thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter
of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryant (1860-1925)
- He has not learned the lesson of life who does
not every day surmount a fear.
- Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear
- not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
- Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the
knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be
feared.
- David Ben-Gurion
- I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how
to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- It takes more courage to reveal insecurities
than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to
abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit,
not in muscles and an immature mind.
- Alex Karras
- I have not ceased being fearful, but I have
ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of
change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says
turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
- Erica Jong
- Nothing can bring you peace but
yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired
and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step.
- Chinese Proverb
- To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait,
put off, postpone.
- David Joseph Schwartz
- Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear but
around you in awareness.
- Ross Hersey
- Always look at what you have left. Never look
at what you have lost.
- Robert H. Schuller
- Better to do something imperfectly than to do
nothing flawlessly.
- Robert H. Schuller
- It takes but one positive thought when given a
chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
- Robert H. Schuller
- I had gone through life thinking that I was
better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
- Dennis Wholey
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all
there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Those with a high level of confidence may have
as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of
dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.
- Alan Loy McGinnis
- My imperfections and failures are as much a
blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we
can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.
- Dennis Waitley
- Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
- Henry Ford
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
- History has demonstrated that the most notable
winners usually encountered heartbraking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they
refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- Bertie C. Forbes
- If you listen to your fears, you will die never
knowing what a great person you might have been.
- Robert H. Schuller
And finally:-
- Whether you think that you can or you can't,
you are usually right.
- Henry Ford
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