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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Daily Quote:
"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Browse Quotations about Fear

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
A fighter has to know fear.
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
A scalded cat dreads cold water.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Action conquers fear.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.
Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
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.
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
Fear guides more than gratitude.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!
Fear is excitement without breath.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Fear is proof of a low born soul.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Fear is the biggest motivator.
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Fear is the mind killer
Fear is the mother of morality.
Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
Fear is what kills us.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Fear makes men believe the worst.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.
Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Fear the man who fears you.
Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.