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• Fear: An unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. Oxford Dictionary
• A feeling of anxiety concerning the outcome of something or the safety of someone. Oxford Dictionary
• Fear: An unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or might happen.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Fear: A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.  Dictionary.com
• Courage,  Boldness,   Stress,  Anxiety,  Cowardice,  Worry,  Doubt,  Risk taking

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Fear is an inevitable part of life that everyone experiences …

• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. P. Lovecraft
• Anyone who says he isn’t afraid of anything is both stupid and lying. David Reynolds
• If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. Ferdinand Foch
• Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. George R.R. Martin
• A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he’s never been any place or done anything. Louis L’Amour
• Fear is not an unknown emotion to us. Neil Armstrong
• We all choke, and the man who says he doesn’t choke is lying like hell. Lee Trevino
• Fear is the travel companion for a life lived on the edge of certainty and safety. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. Proverb
• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. Frederick Buechner
• If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. Laurell K. Hamilton
• In my experience, most people have to face internal obstacles of self- doubt and fear as much as any external obstacles of circumstance and opportunity. Sir Ken Robinson
• To avoid all pain, unhappiness and fear… avoid birth.   Ian Gardner
• Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die. Wayne Gerard Trotman

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… and therefore, we need to learn how to deal with it

• Trying not to be scared is like trying not to be curious. You can’t banish it from your psyche, so you may as well learn to rule it. Danielle LaPorte
• Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. Isabel Allende
• The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear, then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there’s no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist. He’s terrified but he forces himself forward in spite of his terror. He knows that once he gets out into the action, his fear will recede, and he’ll be okay. Steven Pressfield
• I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a 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

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Fear comes in different forms

• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. Eckhart Tolle
• Your major battles with fear are not outside you; they lurk inside, in the caverns of the psyche, in the arena of psychological survival and dark imaginings, where fear shape- shifts into subtle guises such as self- doubt, insecurity, lack of confidence, shyness, inhibition, timidity—a reluctance to assert, express, or even be yourself. Whatever form fear takes, your willingness to face it squarely will determine your fate in the high country of human potential. Dan Millman

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Some argue fear is our greatest enemy …

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. Jawaharlal Nehru
• A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. William Rigley, Jr.
• Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. William Faulkner
• Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel. Georges Bernanos
• Nothing is terrible except fear itself. Sir Francis Bacon
• O, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do. Samuel Johnson
• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. Arthur Christopher Benson
• Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring. Richard Baxter
• Fear is the cancer. Simon Holt
• I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. Yann Martel
• Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. William Shakespeare
• Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery. Mary Balogh
• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? Hannah More
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck

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… a kind of “evil” force

• In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. Anna Jameson
• Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that someone is afraid of something. It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.  M. Montgomery
• Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit. Marvin Gaye
• Fear is a greater evil than evil itself. Francis de Sales
• There is no devil but fear. Elbert Hubbard
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Hiding from your fears only gives them greater power over you

• Whatever you fear most has no power–it is your fear that has the power. Oprah Winfrey
• Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don’t you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. Katherine Paterson
• He who fears something gives it power over him. Moorish Proverb
• Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. German Proverb
• Face your fears or they will climb over your back. Frank Herbert
• A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. R.R. Tolkien

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Fear takes away your personal power

• Excessive fear is always powerless. Aeschylus
• No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Cicero
• When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair. Saint Thomas Aquinas
• If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. Helen Gahagan Douglas
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Fear robs your mind of clear thinking and insight …

• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke
• You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Wallace D. Wattles
• 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 Somers Roche
• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. Lloyd Douglas
• We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. Mawhinney and Sagan
• A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. Jiddue Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Samuel Butler
• Fear is the mind killer. Frank Herbert
• Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.” Cornelia Funke
• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell
• One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. Miguel De Cervantes
• What begins in fear usually ends in folly. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Emotions, especially fear, amplifies thoughts so they take us over. We believe the thoughts to be reality.  They possess us. Eckhart Tolle
• It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Wallace D. Wattles
• Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. Ambrose Bierce
• A situation that seems hopeless when viewed from a perspective colored by fear may become easily manageable when approached with a serene heart and mind. Madisyn Taylor
• Thinking,  Insight

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… and distorts decision making

• Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess. Andrea Riseborough
• You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama
• A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision. Tony Robbins
• Choice,  Decision making

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Fear robs and diminishes you

• When we are frightened, we typically pull energy in to our center, seeing less, hearing less—shrinking consciousness precisely when we need to expand it. Nathaniel Branden
• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel De Cervantes
• The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Leo F. Buscaglia
• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. Lloyd Douglas
• Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. Douglas MacArthur

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Fear stops you from reaching for your dreams …

• Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. Brendan Francis
• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
• You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. Mary Manin Morrissey
• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
• But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism. Eric Wright
• Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. Dan Brown
• Dreams,  Intention

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… and diminishes your life of what is could be

• Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. Donald Miller
• Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. Hafez
• Fear will try to stop you. Doubts will try to stop you. You’ll shy away from doing great things, from going on new adventures, from creating something new and putting it out in the world, because of self- doubt and fear. Become aware of these doubts and fears. Shine some light on them. Beat them with a thousand tiny cuts. Do it anyway, because they are wrong. Leo Babauta
• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway
• You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones. Marsha Sinetar
• Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future–all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again.  Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort– or even the familiar discomfort–of what we know.  It’s nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears. Debbie Ford
• Fear makes strangers of those who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith
• If you’re not making a difference, it’s probably because you are afraid. Seth Godin
• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life. David Emerald

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Fear stops you from realising your potential

• Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. Sydney Smith
• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
• Your fears unfaced become your limits. Robin Sharma
• Though fear is literally an evolutionary gift meant to sharpen your senses and energize you during times of great stress, it can nonetheless become a barrier that prevents you from fulfilling your potential by causing you to miss out on rewarding, life-changing experiences. Madisyn Taylor
• I recognized that it was excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. It broke my heart to see students know the answers yet lack the courage to act on the answer. Often in the real world, it’s not the smart who get ahead, but the bold. Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Limitation,  Potential

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Fear blocks achievement

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Florence Nightingale
• He that is overcautious will accomplish little. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
• Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost. Kobo Abe
• Achievement,  Failure

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Fear creates unhappiness and suffering in life

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. C. Benson
• We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life. Elizabeth Kubler- Ross
• Where fear is, happiness is not. Seneca
• The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. Paulo Coelho
• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh
• He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Michel de Montaigne
• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda
• Fear cuts deeper than swords. George R.R. Martin
• All forms of fear produce fatigue. Bertrand Russell
• It is sometimes suggested that the root of almost every negative emotion is fear, and I believe that this holds some truth. Whatever other emotions we are feeling, if we keep looking deeper into our hearts, we will often discover underlying fears. Amanda Harvey
• If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca
• Unhappiness,  Suffering

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Fear can become a self-fulfilling prophecy

• The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is. Neale Donald Walsch
• Consciousness is but energy in its finest and most dynamic form. This helps explain why events are affected by what we imagine, visualise, desire, want or fear, and why and how an image held in the mind can be made real. John Kehoe
• The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. James Allen
• Focus on what you want, not on what you fear or don’t want. Focus on what you fear and that’s exactly where you’ll end up. Tony Robbins
• What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. The Secret
• The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; 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
• The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
• How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. Paulo Coelho
• Men who fear demons see demons everywhere. Brom
• The greater the fear the nearer the danger. Danish Proverb
• Doubts…often beget the facts they fear. Thomas Jefferson

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Fear poisons the body and mind

• Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals. Joseph Krimsky
• The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful – never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. A. Overstreet
• Lower-energy emotions like fear, anger, regret, and jealousy are magnets for health issues. Release the mind from such disturbing thoughts, and you will find much more room for joy and love. J. Goldwag
• The mind,  The body

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Fear imprisons the heart, blocking love

• By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship. Steve Maraboli
• No one loves the man whom he fears. Aristotle
• Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear. Sarah Dessen
• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. Merle Shain
• If you act from fear, there’s no way you can receive love, because you’re trapped in a thought about what you have to do for love. Every stressful thought separates you from people. Byron Katie
• Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark. Stephen King
• Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. Paulo Coelho
• Fear is the prison of the heart.
• While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. Bo Bennett
• Fear can force obedience, but it can never transform a heart. Stacey Jay
• Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways. Dan Millman
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Fear is at the route of many negative emotions …

• It is sometimes suggested that the root of almost every negative emotion is fear, and I believe that this holds some truth. Whatever other emotions we are feeling, if we keep looking deeper into our hearts, we will often discover underlying fears. Amanda Harvey
• Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. Psychotic behavior occurs when the mind is to frightened and the wounds so painful, that it seems better to break contact with the outside world. Don Miguel Ruiz
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… including anger …

• Anger is a disguised form of fear. Eckhart Tolle
• Anger is fear under pressure. Behind every angry upset there is a fear. Alan Cohen
• Sometimes anger acts as a shield against feeling hurt or scared. Knowing that your anger is a secondary emotion and that your primary emotion is fear will help you manage your feelings effectively. Karyn Hall, PHD
• Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear– fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won’t go our way. Then we fight.  Find out what you’re upset about.  We rarely are upset for the reason we think.  Jennifer James
• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly–hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. Joan Rivers
• Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the dark side. Bree Despain
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… jealousy …

• Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.   Jennifer James
• Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch
• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone
• The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything. Curt Goetz
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…aggressiveness …

• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle. Dorothy Thompson
• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Bertrand Russell
• Violence

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… hate …

• In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare
• Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate. James M. Cain
• Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated. Martin Luther King, JR.
• Hate is crystallized fear, fear’s dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Cyril Connolly
• Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. Cyril Connolly
• Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Let them hate, so long as they fear. Lucius Accius Telephus
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…  cruelty …

• 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 is the parent of cruelty. James A. Froude
• Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller
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… and arrogance

• Arrogance is not strength. Arrogance is just another mask for fear. Bruce Duffy
• Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul’s needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting. Lewis B. Smedes
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Facing your fears often makes obstacles magically vanish

• 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
• 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
• Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis
• Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams
• The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.  If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden
• Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want. Robert G. Allen
• 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. Amelia Earhart
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Facing your fears creates confidence

• 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. Eleanor Roosevelt
• The greater part of courage is having done it before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything. Stephen Richards
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear. William Jennings Bryan
• Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. Theodore Roosevelt
• Self-confidence,  Self-belief

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Facing your fear greatly empowers you

• But every time we do that which we fear, we take back the power that fear has stolen from us – for on the other side of our fears lives our strength. Every time we step into the discomfort of growth and progress, we become more free. The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. Robin Sharma
• The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. Robin Sharma

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Facing your fears brings freedom

• Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
• He who is brave is free. Seneca
• Either you live in the world of desire and fear, or you live in freedom. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• But freedom is really a state of mind in which there is no fear or compulsion, no urge to be secure. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Thucydides
• What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you. Paula Giddings
• Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. Marilyn Ferguson
• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson
• The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. Osho
• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. Alice Walker
• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison
• Freedom

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Facing your fears often conquers your fear

• Do what you fear and fear disappears. David J. Schwartz
• Fear of doing it can only be cured by doing it. Steve Chandler
• Do the things you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison
• Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what’s the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear. Peace Pilgrim
• Fears are just fears. They are created by your imagination to make reality seem scarier than it is. When you take action and face your fears, they become weaker, because you realize that reality isn’t nearly as bad as your imagination. Henri Junttila

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Facing your fears brings security

• There can be no security where there is fear. Felix Frankfurter
• Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. Lao Tzu
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Facing your fears opens new worlds and possibilities and a richer life

• Long ago, mapmakers sketched dragons on maps as a sign to sailors that they would be entering unknown territory at their own risk. Some sailors took this sign literally and were afraid to venture on. Others saw the dragons as a sign of opportunity, a door to virgin territory.  Similarly, each of us has a mental map of the world complete with dragons.  Where does fear hold you back? What dragons can you slay?  Roger von Oech
• A person’s world is only as big as their heart. Tanya A. Moore
• And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly. Dorothy Thompson
• Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. Robert Kiyosaki
• Fear makes us feel small and uncertain, uncomfortable and separate. Fearlessness expands and creates possibilities. Helena Tiainen
• I’m afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life. Paulo Coelho
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin
• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live… Dorothy Thompson
• By courage I mean the ability to face down those imaginary fears and reclaim the far more powerful life that you’ve denied yourself. Steve Pavlina
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Facing fear awakens potential

• In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
• Whatever form fear takes, your willingness to face it squarely will determine your fate in the high country of human potential. Dan Millman
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Facing your fears unlocks treasure

• Your fears stand between you and what you want. They’re worth facing!  Stephen C. Paul
• The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure. Joseph Campbell
• Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? Mark Twain
• Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron
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Facing your fears brings progress and achievement

• Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his head out. Jr Gerstner
• The key to change is to let go of fear. Rosanne Cash
• In my view he who goes ahead is always the one who wins. Catherine The Great
• Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender
• They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. James Allen
• Progress,  Achievement

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Facing and transcending your fears brings happiness

• Happiness is always here, but covered by thoughts, desires and fears. Remez Sasson
• Happiness is within you. When you stop the chatter of the mind and expel your worries and fears you find out that happiness surfaces from within you. Remez Sasson
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The first step to transcending it is to see fear in a more friendly and constructive light

• We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. Susan Jeffers
• Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke
• If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. John Gray
• Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender
• I don’t think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality. Andrew Wyeth
• Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. C. JoyBell C.
• Recognize that fear is as irrational as it is necessary, and perhaps wisdom is learning the difference about when to act on it versus when to act in spite of it. Rick Kirschner

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Fear alerts us of danger and prepares us for it

• Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. Veronica Roth
• Fear is trying to help you. Its intent is to protect you, to keep you safe, to prevent you from mistakes and unpleasant experiences. Leo Babauta
• Fear is a part of life. It’s a warning mechanism. That’s all. It tells you when there’s danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it. Jim Butcher
• Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee. Chip Heath
• He who fears dangers will not perish by them. Leonardo da Vinci
• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles
• God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. – It is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul’s signal for rallying. Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear can contain valuable information

• Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
• Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron
• Fear is priceless education. Lance Armstrong
• It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. Craig Ferguson

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Fear is a compass towards growth and expansion

• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. Celestine Chua
• How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you’d really like to do?  When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally.  Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone.  The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.  Cheryl Richardson
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Fear heightens our awareness

• The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress. Steve Maraboli
• On a psycho-spiritual level the sensation of fear can actually serve to keep us self-aware. It’s a very powerful indicator of where we are contracting, projecting, reaching, risking, sensing darkness. Danielle LaPorte
• To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves. We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness–so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. Peter Williams
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Your fears are often the greatest liars…

• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. Rudyard Kipling
• FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real’. Neale Donald Walsch
• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy. Richard Bach
• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Christian Bovee
• In the process of examining our everyday lives, we can find that all our fears have been based on falsehood. The displacement of the false by the true is the essence of the healing of all things visible and invisible. David R. Hawkins
• Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. Michael Jordan
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… and most times exist only in your mind, dependent on you for survival…

• Remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
• We invent what we love and what we fear. John Irving
• Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival. Steve Maraboli
• Only your mind can produce fear.
• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.  Wayne Dyer

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… almost always worse in your imagination than in reality…

• What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. Spencer Johnson
• There are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca
• Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. William Shakespeare
• Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andre Gide
• Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. German Proverb
• I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. Max Brooks
• Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Daniel Defoe
• A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. Seneca
• The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have. Christopher Paolini
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… and often fulfilling no useful purpose

• Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. Sarah Rees Brennan
• Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not? Lemony Snicket
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Realise that most fears are no longer valid in today’s world

• We’re still really saddled with a stone age mind in a digital age world. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• What are now emotional needs were once necessities for physical survival. The strength of the emotion you feel if you are rejected or belittled comes from ancient programming still resident in your modern brain. Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way. Julian Short
• Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. Bertrand Russell
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• There are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca
• In Biology, you learn about “Homeostasis”–the steady state humans are wired to cling to in order to survive as a species. But here’s the thing: a lot of that set up was what we needed hundreds of years ago when we fought tigers and leopards and faced exceedingly hard environments. To leave the steady state would have meant death. And extinction. Guaranteed. We now live in a world with more resources/comforts/safety than ever before. And yet we still run the old routines. We still subconsciously fight change. We still get scared when we leave the comfort zone.  But without change and discomfort, there can be no progress and achievement.  Robin S. Sharma

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It is only fear itself and its effects that we should fear

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. Paulo Coelho
• What you fear most of all is – fear. Very wise… K. Rowling
• Nothing is terrible except fear itself. Sir Francis Bacon
• So let me assert my firm belief that 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
• The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne
• Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Henry David Thoreau

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• He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Shannon L. Alder
• He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Gaius Julius Caesar
• You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself–your hopes, your fears. Jim Whitaker
• The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Buddha
• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
• Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless. Lao Tzu

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Don’t let your fears rule you

• Fear is your greatest obstacle – so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master. Joy Page
• Fear replied: “My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don’t do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don’t do what I say, I have no power.” Danielle LaPorte
• It’s often best to do the opposite of what your fear is telling you to do. Danielle LaPorte
• Never take counsel of your fears. Andrew Jackson

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Face and confront your fears

• I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most. David Archuleta
• There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there. Donna Favors
• Best way to deal with fear is to confront it. Pittacus Lore
• Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore. Marilyn Manson
• I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot. Nadia Comaneci
• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 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. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
• One of the best ways to tackle anxiety is to face your fears. This is especially so for phobias or fears of specific events, situations or items. Over time you’ll find that most fears start to reduce over time, the more you put yourself into the fearful situations. Kate Cavanagh
• Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think. Olivia Newton- John
• What you fear, approach. Peggy O’Mara

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Challenge the thoughts causing your fear

• So rather than feeling the fear and doing it anyway—how about feeling the fear and looking for the thought that causes it? Steve Chandler
• Whenever I find a fear underneath something, I want to write the thought down behind that fear. I want to challenge the thought, and challenge it, and challenge it, as if I were an attorney in a very important case—challenging a witness. Because that thought is going to turn out to not be true. Try it and you’ll find this out. Steve Chandler
• Don’t pay attention to your thoughts. Fearful thoughts are irrational and unhelpful. They make you think that bad outcomes will occur when the truth is that you don’t know what will happen. Leo Babauta
• Real courage is a mental skill, not an emotional one. Neurologically it means using the thinking neocortex part of your brain to override the emotional limbic impulses. In other words, you use your human intelligence, logic, and independent will to overcome the limitations you’ve inherited as an emotional mammal. Steve Pavlina
• Everything you’re running away from is in your head.
• There is no such thing as an idle thought. All thought creates form on some level. Every thought leads to either love or fear. A Course in Miracles

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Admit when you are feeling fear

• Denying fear only feeds it and encourages its greedy appetite. Sometimes we’re reluctant to face a fear and give it a name or shape.  It’s as if an admission of being frightened will set the fear and all that comes with it into motion.  When we don’t face our fears, we risk creating a big lie by telling ourselves we’re not afraid.  If you’ve ever done this, you know how much energy it takes to beat the fear into submission and bury it without destroying it.  Leslie Levine
• You’re scared. Start there. Look it in the eye. If you deny it, it’s going to keep grabbing at your pant leg, gnawing on your peace of mind, begging to be paid attention to—managing you. Danielle LaPorte
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Instead of resisting fear, accept and welcome it

• Without question, fear is beyond our control. Herein lies the power and the prize. If you cannot control it, the only sane alternative is to relax into pure acceptance of it. Gay Hendrick
• I want to reiterate that you may never be finished with fear. Don’t expect it to go away completely. Each time it appears is another opportunity for you to be kind, open, and loving. When it shows up, receive it like a friendly visitor. Know fear so it doesn’t hold you back, then go and enjoy yourself. Leo Babauta
• Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you’ll see them dissolve. Wayne Dyer
• If you turn into your fears, you can overcome them. Although it may feel natural to turn away from fear and discomfort, doing so is often fuelled by denial, aversion, repression, and suppression—strategies that seldom lead to successful outcomes in the long run. Bob Stahl
• Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it. Simon Holt
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Allow yourself to feel the fear while watching it mindfully with detachment

• 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
• Watch the fear as an energy inside you. Welcome it. Be friends with it. Really feel and observe it. Give it space. The more you allow it, the more it will release and become transmuted. Eckhart Tolle
• The best way to conquer fear is to consciously move toward the feeling and breath. Be conscious of feeling the fear as you move forward. As you do this, the fear dissolves. Fear is just a feeling; it cannot hurt you. Don’t be afraid of your feelings. Feel and continue to move forward. Christine Day
• 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. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
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Consciously relax your body…

• From your higher perspective—activated in the prefrontal cortex in your forehead—you make executive-brain decisions about the level of danger, the appropriate action to take, and when it’s safe to relax. Fortunately, you don’t need to learn how to give this signal of safety; you simply exhale and give a sigh of relief, which instantly signals the body’s relaxation response—from the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system—to take over and release muscle tension and reduce stress hormones. Neil Fiore
• The pause-and-plan response drives you in the opposite direction of the fight- or- flight response. Instead of speeding up, your heart slows down, and your blood pressure stays normal. Instead of hyperventilating like a madman, you take a deep breath. Instead of tensing muscles to prime them for action, your body relaxes. Kelly McGonigal
• Relaxing also quiets the fight-or-flight sympathetic nervous system, since relaxed muscles send feedback to the alarm centers in the brain that all is well. When you’re very relaxed, it’s hard to feel stressed or upset. Rick Hanson
• A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams
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… and breathe deeply

• Your breath can set you free. It can anchor you in the now and help you vanquish and overcome your most pervasive fears. I saved it for last, because it’s one of the simplest and most powerful ways of overcoming fear. Henri Junttila
• The best advice I can give you is to take big, easy breaths when you feel fear. Feel the fear instead of pretending it’s not there. Celebrate it with a big breath, just the way you’d celebrate your birthday by taking a big breath and blowing out all the candles on your cake. Do that, and your fear turns into excitement. Do it more, and your excitement turns into exhilaration. I find it very empowering to know that I’m in charge of the exhilaration I feel as I go through life. I bet you will, too. Gay Hendricks
• Fear is excitement without the breath. Gay Hendricks
• The very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it. Gay Hendricks
• Next time you feel the stress gremlins taking over, remember to take a nice, deep breath and exhale with a sigh. Brian Johnson
• The only difference between fear and excitement is whether you are breathing. Dan Millman
• Anxiety and fear dissipate quickly when countered with conscious breathing because concentrating on the breath enables you to refocus your attention inward. You can ground yourself and regain your usual calm by taking a series of deep belly breaths as you visualize your feet growing roots that stretch miles down into the earth. Madisyn Taylor
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Courage is not being fearless but taking action in spite of fear

• All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.  Desmond Tutu
• Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You’ve taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. Piers Anthony
• Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him. George R.R. Martin
• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. General Omar Bradley
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Dan Rather
• Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. John Wayne
• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. Eddie Rickenbacker
• Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler
• Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. Robert Fanney
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. M. Scott Peck
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. Robert Anthony
• Courage is summoning the inner strength to take action in spite of fear. Steve Pavlina
• Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear. John- Roger and Peter McWilliams
• Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them. Steve Pavlina
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. Nelson Mandela
• That’s what courage is. If she weren’t scared, she wouldn’t need courage in the first place. Nicholas Sparks
• To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway. Beverly Smith
• What we need if we are to implement change in our lives is courage. And courage is not about not having fear but about having fear and going ahead anyway. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Without fear there cannot be courage. Christopher Paolini
• Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. Dan Millman
• Don’t you see? You can’t be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so. Teri Hall Archuleta
• Courage is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid but being able to control that fear so you are able to perform at your highest ability. That’s what makes a champion. Cory Lester
• Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair. Lord Moran
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt
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To live a life that matters, you need to learn to feel the fear and do it anyway

• Feal the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers
• 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. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you fear most and you control fear. Tom Hopkins
• Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. Henry S. Haskins
• I’ve been afraid every single day of my life, but I’ve gone ahead and done it anyway. Georgia O’Keefe
• We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John F. Kennedy
• I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.  Erica Jong
• When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. Mark Rutherford
• So, what are you afraid of? What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Time to do that. Robert Kiyosaki
• Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk
• “Fearless” is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. Taylor Swift
• Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike. Arthur Ashe
• Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? Barbra Streisand
• Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. Taylor Swift
• It doesn’t matter if we think we’re fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives. Diane Conway
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. William Jennings Bryan
• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act. If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.  Harv Eker
• We don’t have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting. Diane Conwa
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Therefore, actively resolve to do what you fear…

• Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. Timothy Ferriss
• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If you’re afraid of something, of putting yourself out there, of creating a kind of connection or a promise, that’s a clue that you’re on the right track. Go, do that. Seth Godin
• If you’re are paralyzed with fear it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. Steven Pressfield
• I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. Timothy Ferriss

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…for that is the surest way to transcend fear

• Do what you fear and fear disappears. David J. Schwartz
• Fear of doing it can only be cured by doing it. Steve Chandler
• The greater part of courage is having done it before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do the things you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• 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
• Take decisive action and your fear won’t matter. Take that decisive action enough times and your fear won’t exist any more. Steve Chandler
• 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
• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison
• Fears are just fears. They are created by your imagination to make reality seem scarier than it is. When you take action and face your fears, they become weaker, because you realize that reality isn’t nearly as bad as your imagination. Henri Junttila
• Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 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. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
• How does a man become brave? By doing brave things. Plato
• Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what’s the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear. Peace Pilgrim
• Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it. Joyce Meyer

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Expose your fears to the light of awareness and examination…

• Think of yourself as an explorer going into new territory. Mentally put on your headlamp and bring your attention into the fear. Forget about what you think it may be like and be curious about what it is actually like. What triggers it? What sensations do you feel in your body? What thoughts appear in your mind? What urges do you have? Study your fear without acting on it so it becomes a known quantity to you. Leo Babauta
• 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
• Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win. Steve Maraboli
• I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. Yann Martel
• Become aware of your doubts and fears. Shine some light on them. Beat them with a thousand tiny cuts. Do it anyway, because they are wrong. Leo Babauta
• Identify the thoughts that frighten you, being as detailed as possible about what scares or worries you. Then, instead of viewing your thoughts as facts, treat them as hypotheses you’re testing out. As you examine and challenge your worries and fears, you’ll develop a more balanced perspective. Robert Segal
• If you can discover the fear behind the anger and dismantle it in the light of awareness, the anger dissipates. The next time you are angry, ask yourself, What am I afraid of? Alan Cohen
• Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. Tori Amos
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… for fear is banished through understanding, not resistance

• It is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against fear.  Resistance, in any form, does not end fear.  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, not how to resist it through courage and so on. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return. Deepak Chopra
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List your fears and get to know them and what causes them…

• Get specific about what exactly you’re afraid of. Look at the pictures you have in your head about the situation. What is happening in them? What are you really scared of? Become an observer of your inner space. Henri Junttila
• Get curious about what thoughts generate your fear, where do you feel the fear, and how do you react to it? Again, be an observer of what is going on. Henri Junttila
• Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gille
• A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. Pema Chodron
• We want to notice fear and meet it directly while it’s still an emotion, not a behavior. We want to confront or comfort, diffuse and transform it before it seeps into our actions and starts running the show. Danielle LaPorte
• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. Vannevar Bush
• Getting clear on what you’re scared of can instantly defuse ticking anxiety bombs. Danielle LaPorte
• Think of something you’re afraid of. Got it in your head? Now ask yourself “Why am I afraid of … ?” Answer it. Ask again. Because why? Answer again—you can give the same answer or a different one, but eventually you’ll need to get unstuck and discover another reply for yourself. Keep repeating the Because why? question and keep answering it. It’s amazing what the basic repetition can dig up as you drill down closer to the source of your fear. Danielle LaPorte
• If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered. Stephen King
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…realising that fear can be a treasure house of self-discovery

• Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. Celestine Chua
• Anxiety is a cognitive emotion that reveals truths that we would prefer to hide but that we need for our greater health. Soren Kierkegaard
• It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. Craig Ferguson
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Use writing as a way of examining your fears

• Getting your fears down on paper is important, because trying to think them through never works. You get caught in endless loops of negativity that only lead you further down the rabbit hole and make your life miserable. Henri Junttila
• Write about what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg
• Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene
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Nothing feeds fear like ignorance

• Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville
• Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Arnold Glasow
• Fear always springs from ignorance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. Christian Nevell Bovee
• Ignorance is the cause of fear. Seneca
• Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness. Ingrid Holtby
• It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Hilary Mantel
• The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome. George R.R. Martin
• What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. Alice Walker
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Educate yourself about the subject of your fear…

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato
• 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
• Educate yourself about the subject of your fear. Fear is often created by the unknown, and there is no better cure for that knowledge and understanding. Amanda Harvey
• Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand …prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand. Peart
• Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it’s as temporary as you choose. Christine Comaford
• We often fear what we do not understand. Our best defence is knowledge. Tuvok, “Innocence”, Star Trek:  Voyager
• Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what’s the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear. Peace Pilgrim
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… for reality is hardly ever worse than what you can imagine

• We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Seneca
• Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. German Proverb
• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andre Gide
• I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. Max Brooks
• What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. Spencer Johnson
• We invent what we love and what we fear. John Irving
• Remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
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Imagine a happy outcome…

• Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman
• To deal with fear, go to your meditative level. Polarize the fear; visualize the positive expectations. What would you be doing if you did not have the fear? Go over this again and again. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
• Whenever fear strikes, flip it over. Instead of thinking of something bad that can happen, think of something positive. What’s a positive outcome to the action you fear? Henri Junttila
• All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options? Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• For every negative imagining (worry thought), practice positive pretending (imagining the most wonderful outcome). Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• Fear is nothing more than a negative expectation. Think about it, when you’re afraid, what are you imagining? You’re imagining what could go wrong. If you want to get rid of the fear, you’ve got to swap your negative expectation for a positive one. It really is that simple. Brian Johnson
• If you’re going to make up things about the future, you may as well come up with a meaning that empowers you—rather than stresses you out. Jonathan Robinson
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… although it can also help to make peace with your worst-case scenario

• Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?” Seneca
• You’ve got to find a way of not letting what you fear be so bad. You’ve got to make peace with your worst-case scenario. And when you make peace with your worst-case scenario, then you will discover that you can feel better, and then things will start coming back into alignment with you. Abraham-Hicks
• What’s the worst that could happen? If you’re afraid of public speaking, imagine yourself on a stage with everyone laughing at you. How do you feel afterward? You’re still alive, aren’t you? Life goes on. Henri Junttila
• To fear the worst oft cures the worse. William Shakespeare
• There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized. Conan O’Brien

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Hesitation and indecision feeds fear

• Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive. David J. Schwartz
• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Dale Carnegie
• To increase fear–wait, put off postpone. David Joseph Schwartz
• Indecision is the seedling of fear. Napoleon Hill
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Take decisive action for nothing better conquers fear

• Action conquers fear. Peter Nivio Zarlenga
• Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear. David Schwartz
• Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive. David J. Schwartz
• Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Walter Anderson
• Anxiety is energy that cannot be used now. When you focus that trapped energy on action in the present moment, you release it and experience excitement and effectiveness. Neil Fiore
• When thinking won’t cure fear, action will. W. Clement Stone
• 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
• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. Salman
• Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. Clement Stone
• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Norman Vincent Peale
• Here’s something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone. David Schwartz
• The opposite of fear is not happiness, it is decisiveness. Have no fear; happiness is to be found in having made a decision. Michael Rawls
• I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
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Transcend your fear by creating a deep burning “yes” inside for something …

• Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. Margaret J. Wheatley
• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. Bill Cosby
• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII
• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity. Paulo Coelho
• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear. Brian Tracy
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… through doing what you love …

• What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfilment. Pauline Rose Chance
• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. Samuel Goldwyn
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… through developing a strong sense of purpose

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
• When I care to be powerful–to use my strength in the service of my vision–then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde
• I am not afraid…I was born to do this. Joan of Ark
• 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. James Allen
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Overcome your fear of failure by letting go of any rigid attachment to a particular outcome

• Paradoxically, holding your goals lightly increases the chance of attaining them, while being attached—and thus fearing failure—gets in the way of peak performance. Rick Hanson
• Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing. Stephen Richards
• Attachment creates fear that gets in your way: What if I lose? What if the deal doesn’t go through? What if I’m rejected? Your belief that everything must work out exactly as you want it to with no glitches creates enormous pressure. Nonattachment, on the other hand, works like magic. It allows you to have fun in your efforts, to enjoy the process. It takes the pressure off. You win regardless of the outcome. Richard Carlson
• There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.  Susan Falter- Barns
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Some argue that a strong desire for something overcomes fear …

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
• At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. George Packer
• Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. Andrew Weil
• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Francis Bacon
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… but the truth is that excessive desire can actually feed fear

• Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. Yoda
• Desire and fear walk hand in hand. Katie Davis
• You can’t have fear without need. Candace Silvers
• We fear the thing we want the most. Robert Anthony
• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Baruch Spinoza
• People think that if they had no cravings, they’d be like deadwood. But in fact they’d lose their tension. Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn’t be driving with your brakes on. That’s what would happen. Anthony de Mello
• Everything on earth gives cause for fear, and the only freedom from fear is to be found in the renunciation of all desire. Bharti- hari
• I fear nothing. I hope for nothing.  I am free.  Nikos Kazantzakis
• From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear. Buddha
• From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he that is free from lust knows neither grief nor fear. Dhammapada
• If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller
• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Cyril Connolly

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Little by little increase your tolerance to the subject of your fear…

• Overcoming fears, big or small, can be done by gradually tackling the tasks or situations that we fear, and thereby, developing trust in ourselves that we can do it- fear and all. It is important to take baby steps, and to steadily build up courage and confidence by facing your fears in small ways at first. Amanda Harvey
• Fear of doing it can only be cured by doing it. Steve Chandler

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… for courage must be conditioned like a muscle

• Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles. You wouldn’t go into a gym for the first time and try to lift 300 pounds, so don’t think that to be courageous you must tackle your most paralyzing fear right away. Steve Pavlina
• Strengthen your risk muscle. Keep it in shape by doing new things. If you don’t, it atrophies and you’re no longer able to take chances. Make it a point to take at least one risk per week. Try a new recipe. Tackle a problem outside your field of expertise. Invest in a new idea. Roger von Oech
• Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. Ruth Gordon
• Like gaining confidence, finding one’s courage is gradual rather than all at once. Barbara Barksdale Clowse

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So much fear is caused by apprehension about the future

• We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now. Gay Hendricks
• We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas
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Transcend fear through a focus on the here and now

• A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either. Eckhart Tolle
• Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing. Robert Anthony
• Fear is only a construct of people who are mindful of the past and the future. Fear has no place in the present moment.  Eckhart Tolle
• It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present. Marion Woodman
• 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
• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today. William Allen White
• All negativity is caused by denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Eckhart Tolle
• As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change. Worrying about the future will cease. A deep peace will enfold you, a peace that says, ‘All is well. There is nothing to fear.’ Everything is unfolding according to plan and you are being guided each step along the way. Douglas Bloch
• When our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our minds. Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future. Richard Carlson
• Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors that impede appropriate action. As we become able to take action in the present, both of those factors lose power over our lives. Brenda Shoshanna
• Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now. Christopher Paolini
• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Transcend fear through faith …

• Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. Philip Gulley
• While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? Julia Ward Howe
• Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking.  Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.  Norman Vincent Peale
• A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
• A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. George Macdonald
• Deep faith eliminates fear. Lech Walesa
• Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. Brené Brown
• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones
• It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. Harry Emerson Fosdick
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… especially faith and trust in a higher power

• A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. Leonard Ravenhill
• Ask for support from your Higher Power in overcoming your fears, and in developing trust and confidence. One of the greatest causes of fear is feeling a sense of disconnection from our higher selves, and with the Divine source of life of which we are an inseparable part.  Amanda Harvey
• Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard
• Courage is fear that prays. Paulo Coelho
• Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.
• Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way to show that we trust in God. Paulo Coelho
• If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on this path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again. A Course in Miracles
• If you knew who walks beside you on this path that you have chosen, fear would be impossible. A Course in Miracles
• Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27
• The wise man in the storm prays God, not from safety from danger but from deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him not the storm without. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. Saint Francis of Assisi
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Transcend fear by raising your awareness

• Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear but around you in awareness. Ross Hersey
• Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
• An emotional state stems from grasping desires and encroaching fears, but true awareness is calmness. J. Goldwag
• However, when we shift our awareness or “frequency” from self-consciousness –where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside — to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible. Rhonda Byrne
• They are wise whose thoughts are steady and minds serene, unaffected by good and bad. They are awake and free from fear. Buddha
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Realise that all fear is of the ego …

• The underlying emotion that governs all the activity of the ego is fear. The fear of being nobody, the fear of nonexistence, the fear of death. All its activities are ultimately designed to eliminate this fear, but the most the ego can ever do is to cover it up temporarily with an intimate relationship, a new possession, or winning at this or that. Illusion will never satisfy you. Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. Eckhart Tolle
• A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others. The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than enhances it. So the shy person’s fear of attention is greater than his or her need of attention. Eckhart Tolle
• As long as the ego runs your life, most of your thoughts, emotions, and actions arise from desire and fear. Eckhart Tolle
• How much suffering and fear, and how many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the “I”, What should I do with this great demon?  Shantideva
• Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears. Henry Cloud
• The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. John O’Donohue
• Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear? Lao Tzu
• All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.  Marianne Williamson
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… due to its fear of loss and diminishment …

• Most people’s lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now. Eckhart Tolle
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… due to its need for approval and control …

• In object-referral we are constantly seeking the approval of others. Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear- based. In object- referral we also feel an intense need to control things. We feel an intense need for external power. The need for approval, the need to control things, and the need for external power are needs that are based on fear. Deepak Chopra
• The Ego is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. Deepak Chopra
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Transcend fear by awakening to your true Self as consciousness

• When you experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power… Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. Deepak Chopra
• Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the ego is loss of self. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of ‘becoming’ as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and there is freedom from fear. Eckhart Tolle
• Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self- image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom. Eckhart Tolle
• The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. Gary Zukav
• Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment. The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death — but you are beyond the body. You are not the body; you are the bodiless. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth — that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer. Osho
• You are a dynamic stream of consciousness, flowing freely, fully and fearlessly in, through and around the Universe in unlimited abundance. Reclaim your Spirit…  Robert Beno
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Love and fear are life’s primary emotions

• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions–fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions–only two words in the language of the soul…. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. Neale Donald Walsch
• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. John Lennon
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Love casts out fear

• The forces of love are more powerful than the forces of fear. Whether love or fear prevails on earth is not determined by which is more powerful, but by which we allow to flow through us and thus out into the world. Marianne Williamson
• It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton
• Perfect love casts out all fear. The Bible
• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. Anthony de Mello
• Fear separates–makes us feel alone–disconnected–while love–love does just the opposite–it unites. Alyson Noel
• Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron

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Transcend fear by choosing love instead …

• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
• Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. Gerald Jampolsky
• Love is letting go of fear. Gerald Jampolsky
• Love is an act of courage, not of fear. Paolo Freire
• Give into love or live in fear. Jonathan Larson
• Every single free choice you ever undertake arises out of one of the only two possible thoughts that there are: a thought of love or a thought of fear. Neale Donald Walsch

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… by attuning to the love inside you

• Focus on love rather than fear. Connect with the Divine that flows through you and allow the power of love to radiate through your being. Remind yourself that fear is simply an absence of love, just as darkness is an absence of light. When we turn on a light, the darkness simply cannot exist. Likewise, if we can illuminate our fear with pure love, the fear cannot help but vanish. Amanda Harvey
• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Marianne Williamson
• I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Galileo
• We no longer vibrate to fear when we’re attuned to love. Frank Whitney
• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson
• How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. Eckhart Tolle
• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. Stephen Levine

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Transcend fear through the power of gratitude

• Whenever you feel fear, switch it over to what you are grateful for instead. If you’re afraid of public speaking, be grateful for the opportunity to communicate with so many people, and that they are there to genuinely listen to what you have to say. Henri Junttila
• When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears. Tony Robbins
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Transcend fear by purging fear-based beliefs

• Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. John Roger
• So the next step is to develop awareness of all the self-limiting, fear-based beliefs that make you unhappy. You take an inventory of all that you believe, all your agreements, and through this process you begin the transformation. The Toltecs called this the Art of Transformation, and it’s a whole mastery. You achieve the Mastery of Transformation by changing the fear-based agreements that make you suffer, and reprogramming your own mind, in your own way. Miguel Ruiz
• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. Gerald G. Jampolsky
• Any thought that makes you feel uncomfortable – be it fear, guilt, anger, worry, frustration – is backed by a negative belief. Let it go! Che Garman
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Transcend fear by harness the power of laughter

• Laughter is poison to fear. George R.R. Martin
• It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear. Michael Crichton
• Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Will Durst
• Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve fear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails. William F. Fry, Jr., MD
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Transcend fear through the power of self-acceptance and self esteem

• Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Robert Holden
• Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. Bonard W. Overstreet
• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain of our worth, we are almost impervious to fear. William Congreve
• Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle
• And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson
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Transcend fear through the power of forgiveness

• Forgiveness eliminates fear and anxiety, weakness and vulnerability. Ari Kiev
• Forgiveness is a stunning principal, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. Barbara Johnson
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Transcend fear through the power of curiosity

• Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid. Patricia Alexander
• Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. James Stephens
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Transcend fear through the power of hope …

• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. Sir Walter Scott
• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb
• Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. Martha Beck
• Be guided by your hopes, not your fears. Nelson Mandela
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… but not excessively

• False hopes are more dangerous than fears. R.R. Tolkien
• I fear nothing. I hope for nothing.  I am free.  Nikos Kazantzakis
• The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Lady Nancy Astor
• Where no hope is left, is left no fear. John Milton

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Transcend fear through the power of integrity

• Embrace feelings of nervousness as entirely normal
• The day I’m not nervous stepping onto the first tee—that’s the day I quit. Tiger Woods
• I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody’s performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high- pressure jobs, but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That’s the real first ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally. John Eliot
• It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. Rob Gilbert
• The butterflies always fly when you’re pushing into something that matters deeply and that requires growth. The reframe is to learn to experience the sensation as a signpost that cool things are happening and lean into it, rather than as a signal to run. Jonathan fields
• Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. Sherman Alexie
• With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best. Zig Ziglar
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There are many things we can fear …

• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness … for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush. Horace Walpole
• Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed. JoyBell C.

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The fear of the unknown

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. Henry Louis Mencken
• Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers. Mario Stinger
• One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. Pema Chodron
• I have accepted fear as a 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
• Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. Antoine De Saint- Exupery
• Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• We all fear what we don’t know-it’s natural. Leo Buscaglia
• If we fear the unknown, then surely we fear ourselves. Bryant H. McGill
• It’s fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that–it’s all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it’s unknown and it’s plain sailing. Everything is unknown- -then you’re ahead of the game. John Lennon
• It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin
• The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known. Caroline Kettlewell
• There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. Elias Canetti
• The unknown

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The fear of change

• All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Robert Maurer
• Change

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The fear of uncertainty

• It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while. Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
• If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. Eckhart Tolle
• Let go of the need for certainty

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The fear of the future and what it might bring (worry)

• Fear is a mental projection of something that has not happened. Steve Maraboli
• Fear is faith that it won’t work out. Sister Mary Tricky
• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle
• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.  Pliny the Younger
• I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance. Seth Godin
• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. Fulton Oursler
• Regret is the longing to change the past. Fear is the desire to control the future. Peace is the surrender to Now. Jeff Foster.
• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas
• We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now. Gay Hendricks
• We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas
• Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom
• The future,  Worry

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The fear of death

• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity – designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man. Ernest Becker
• Death: There’s nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it—the fear of it. Seneca
• It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. K. Rowling
• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the egos fear of death, of annihilation.  To the ego, death is always just around the corner.  In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.  Eckhart Tolle
• Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension. Wayne Dyer
• People living deeply have no fear of death. Anaïs Nin
• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Mark Twain
• He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. Franz Kafka
• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. Stanislav Grof
• Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha
• How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Francis Bacon
• Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow. Lily Pincus
• Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. William Mitford
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff
• Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman
• Death

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The fear of new thinking and new ideas

• 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 habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. 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
• Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. Morris L. Ernst
• If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear. Gene Roddenberry
• Explore new ideas and perspectives

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The fear of failure

• Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. Dan Millman
• It is the fear of failure, the fear of being imperfect (perfectionism), and the fear of impossible expectations (being overwhelmed) that prevent us from acting on and attaining humanly possible goals and relationships. Neil Fiore
• The pain associated with the fear of failure is usually more intense than the pain following an actual failure. Tal Ben- Shahar
• Failure is a judgement, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love – love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others and love for your planet. Wayne Dyer
• It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. Brian Tracy
• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. Jack Lemmon
• Don’t permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. John Wooden
• No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. Baudjuin
• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert T. Kiyosaki
• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Sven Goran Eriksson
• If there is fear of failing, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. Carl Jung
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King
• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land
• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
• Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. Francis Chan
• Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.  Bruce Lee
• I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. John Keats
• Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn’t be driving with your brakes on. That’s what would happen. Anthony De Mello
• True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. Paul Seeney
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth
• Failure

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The fear of success

• Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. Jay McInerney
• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other. Michelle Sagara West
• Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. Tom Kite
• Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy. Denis Waitley
• We fear what we most desire. Harley King
• We fear the thing we want the most. Robert Anthony
• Success

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The fear of making mistakes

• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually. Abraham Maslow
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
• To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Pearce
• Mistakes

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The fear of taking risks and trying new things

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
• It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear. Paulo Coelho
• Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields
• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
• It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Herodotus
• We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. Erica Jong
• Risk taking,  Courage

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The fear of each other

• Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. John Steinbeck
• Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other. Muriel Rukeyser

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The fear of judgement …

• For fear of not being accepted, we tailor our personality, mince our words, and carve our opinions to fit in. Danielle LaPorte
• Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what other may think about you. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either. Miguel Ruiz
• It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. Criss Jami
• Love is full of anxious fears. Ovid
• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. Mignon McLaughlin
• The fear of judgment is the key fear that stems from over-identifying who you are, your worth as a person, with your work. From this fear follows the counterproductive drive toward perfectionism, severe self- criticism, and the fear that you must deprive yourself of leisure time in order to satisfy some unseen judge. Neil Fior

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… and disapproval

• The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you. Elmer Davis
• How on earth can another’s thought harm you? It is your thought about his thought that harms. Change your thought. Vernon Howard
• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell truth that is in us . . . the divine flood of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The more you surrender to the fear of someone’s disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone’s approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self- esteem. Nathaniel Branden
• The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. Osho
• You can’t be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing. Lewis Freedman
• Criticism,  Rejection

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The fear of humiliation and shame

• It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems. T. Kiyosaki
• Most of our fears are fear of failure, shame, or somehow not living up to the standards society has put up for us. Henri Junttila
• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. Mignon McLaughlin
• Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. André Gide
• We’re frightened of what makes us different. Anne Rice
• Humiliation,  Shame

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The fear of rejection

• It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself. Bo Bennett
• If you don’t ever ask, out of fear of rejection, then all you have done is rejected yourself. Steve Fowle
• Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions. Harvey Mackay
• Rejection

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The fear of not being perfect

• Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism…confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. David M. Burns
• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. Pau Casals
• Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dalí
• I’m intimidated by the fear of being average. Taylor Swift
• It is the fear of failure, the fear of being imperfect (perfectionism), and the fear of impossible expectations (being overwhelmed) that prevent us from acting on and attaining humanly possible goals and relationships. Neil Fiore
• Perfectionism is the ultimate fear that people will see you as you really are and you won’t measure up. Oprah Winfrey
• Perfectionism

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The fear of loneliness and solitude

• Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.   Mignon McLaughlin
• Loneliness is one of the most feared states in modern life. Perhaps this fear has come about because so many of us have a vague awareness of a surging river of loneliness deep inside.  Much of our activity and busyness is designed to keep that river within its banks.  Maybe loneliness has received a bad rap in today’s world.  Maybe loneliness is one of the ways our inner being communicates with us, letting us know that we need to take the time to get back in touch with ourselves.  Could it be that the emptiness we feel in our solar plexus (and try so hard to avoid) is a friendly reminder that something (or someone!) has gone missing–we ourselves!   When we are lonely, it’s usually a signal that we need to spend some time with ourselves.  The next time you get this signal, try taking some time alone.  Anne Wilson Schaef
• Never fear being alone, because you never are. Rod McKuen
• The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
• In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. Rollo May
• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. Alice H. Rice
• The fear of being alone with ourselves is … a feeling of embarrassment, bordering sometimes on terror at seeing a person at once so well-known and so strange; we are afraid and run away. We thus miss the chance of listening to ourselves, and we continue to ignore our conscience. Erich Fromm
• Loneliness,  Solitude

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Fears relating to money …

• People struggle financially because they cannot control their emotion of fear. Robert T. Kiyosaki
• The fear of losing money is real. Everyone has it. Even the rich. But it’s not fear that is the problem. It’s how you handle the fear. It’s how you handle losing. It’s how you handle failure that makes the difference in one’s life. That goes for anything in life, not just money. The primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they handle that fear. Robert Kiyosaki
• Fear about money is, at its root, the fear of not surviving. Brent Kessel
• Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. The fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss. Robert Kiyosaki

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… especially not having enough

• The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. Alan Cohen
• Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence, and temperance is a certain cure. Hosea Ballou
• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. J. K. Rowling
• The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. Alan Cohen
• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. William James
• Thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed. Napoleon Hill
• You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. George Bernard Shaw
• Abundance

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The fear of pain

• I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
• Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Siri Hustvedt
• Pain

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The fear of loss

• Attachment comes from a perception of lack – all comes from fear. Yvette Soler
• Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. Lionel Shriver
• I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away. Suzanne Collins
• The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear. T. Harv Ek
• Loss

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The fear of freedom and free choice

• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud
• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
• Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility. William McFee
• Choice,  Free will

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The saddest of all fears is the fear of being fully alive

• We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe
• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon Phelps
• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. Eugene O’Neill
• Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman
• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live… Dorothy Thompson
• Being fully alive

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Let go of the fear of being all you can be

• 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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

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If you must fear one thing, let it be the fear of never beginning to truly live

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius
• Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. John Henry Cardinal Newman
• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear … that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. Zachary Scott
• Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? Caroline Myss

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• A lot of people are afraid of heights but not me. I’m afraid of widths.   Steven Wright
• According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
• All men are afraid of eyelash curlers; I sleep with one under my pillow instead of a gun. Rita Rudner
• As a child I was more afraid of tetanus shots than for example Dracula. Dave Barry
• At their core women fear that men will kill them; at their core men fear that women will laugh at them. Gavin de Becker
• Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. Franklin Jones
• Claustrophobia: The fear of Santa Claus.
• Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Horace Smith
• Courage: Fear in action.
• Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. L. Mencken
• Deterrence: The art of producing in the mind of the enemy the fear to attack.
• Even snakes are afraid of snakes. Steven Wright
• Fear was absolutely necessary; without it I would have been scared to death. Floyd Patterson
• Fobia: The fear of misspelled words.
• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
• He doesn’t know the meaning of fear… but then again, he doesn’t know the meaning of MOST words.
• He doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘fear;’ of course there are lots of words he doesn’t know the meaning of. Bobby Bowden
• Hero: One who is afraid to run away.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words.
• Honesty: The fear of being caught.
• Hunch: What you call an idea that you’re afraid is wrong.
• I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights. George Carlin
• I fear no man but the dentist. George Foreman
• I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away. Joss Whedon
• I moved to New York for my health; I’m paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. Anita Weiss
• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anaïs Nin
• I think what sets us apart from other animals is that we aren’t afraid of vacuum cleaners. Jeff Stilson
• I want to die like my father quietly in his sleep – not screaming and terrified like his passengers. Bob Monkhouse
• I went to a karaoke bar last night that didn’t play any 70’s music, at first, I was afraid oh I was petrified. Stewart Francis
• I’m afraid of sharks – but only in a water situation. Demetri Martin
• I’m afraid that fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time. Maria Bamford
• I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
• It’s not that I’m afraid to die I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
• Longevity: Uncommon extension of the fear of death. Ambrose Bierce
• Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Gary Larson
• My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy. Ethlie Ann Vare
• My fear of camping: I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone? Kathy Griffin
• My girlfriend say’s that I’m afraid of commitment, well she’s not my girlfriend  – more a wife.   Stewart Francis
• My psychiatrist and I are making real progress. He’s taken all my little fears and turned them into one big phobia.
• My wife was afraid of the dark – then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.   Rodney Dangerfield
• Only priests and fools are fearless and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God. Patrick Rothfuss
• Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy. L. Mencken
• A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce
• She said I was afraid of success which may in fact be true because I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin’ around time. Maria Bamford
• She was so anally retentive she couldn’t sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture. Joanna Lumley
• Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. Death is #2. That means that at a funeral the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy. Jerry Seinfeld
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell
• There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connolly
• There’s just one thing that is keeping me from belting you. Oh yeah and what is that?   Fear!
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself – and of course the boogieman. Pat Paulsen
• THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR  and spiders   Sign
• What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? A: Claustrophobic.
• When women hold off from marrying men we call it independence; when men hold off from marrying women we call it fear of commitment. Warren Farrell

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