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Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)
Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.
Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back
Acting with fear is called courage.
When one's mind is made up ... fear diminishes.
People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.
One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.
Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.
Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it
You can be fearful or fearless ... I chose the latter
Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Courage is confident action.
Fear not failure but success.
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.
What is fear but courage's shadow?
Courage is not the absence of fear
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.
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Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.
If you can't be unafraid, be afraid and happy.
Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.
Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Fear is finding fault with the future.
Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.
Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
Courage is more important than confidence
Scared is scared of things you like.
Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
It needs courage to be afraid.
hates to be startled, or scared, or surprised.
What shall we not go in fear of if we fear that which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge?
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
Fear is the first and last obstacle on your path to greatness.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Fear is the enemy of success.
It has a way of eroding barriers-that famous Yankee reticence-which would otherwise be impregnable.
Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
fear is weakness uncontrolled!
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
What you fear most of all is-fear.
I have a fear of failure.
Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear.
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy
The Gift of Fear.
Confidence creates courage.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Fear makes even strong men do things they might never do otherwise,
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage
Fear is impotent when you challenge it.
True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage
But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.
Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.
It's fear that makes an act courageous.
Fear is the best deterrent of all.
The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
Fear has many faces.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Fear success but not the mistakes.
When you're sincere about doing something, you're stalked by the fear that there's no turning back.
Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will ...
Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
Hesitation is the death of advantage,
Without fear there cannot be courage.
Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
Fear isn't in my vocabulary.
Cautious reticence is, in nine cases out of ten, cowardly betrayal. The best policy is never to be politic, but to proclaim every atom of the truth so far as God has taught it to you.
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.
Fear is choosing the safe course
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Courage doesn't mean you aren't scared.