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• ...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Eric Butterworth

  Failure, Impossible, Failing

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• Only your mind can produce fear.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Mind, Produce

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• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Cybernetics, Psychological, Exposure

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.88, Penguin

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• That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

  James M. Cain

  Hate

  James M. Cain (2011). “Double Indemnity”, p.53, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Father, O father! what do we here
  In this land of unbelief and fear?

  William Blake

  Father, Land, Unbelief

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.90, Routledge

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Innovation, Intellectual, Mediocrity

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• The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

  Robin Sharma

  Beautiful, Running, Inspirational Life

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• Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Self Improvement, Counselor

  Twitter post from Apr 29, 2009

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• Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Moving, Thinking

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Yield, Mind, Weakness

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

  Otto von Bismarck

  World, Aries, Fear God

  Speech to the Reichstag, www.reichstagsprotokolle.de. February 06, 1888.

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• Fear guides more than gratitude.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Guides

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Winning, Favors, Higher

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

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• Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

  Barbara Deming

  Thinking, Firsts, Action

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• I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Learning, Sleep, Fate

  The Waking (1953) p. 120

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• I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Betrayal, Mistake, Fall

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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• It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

  Gillian Anderson

  Moving, Mean, Feelings

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• When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

  Juvenal

  Desire, Reason, Direct

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• Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

  Jane Addams

  Government, Self, Defense

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Weight Loss, Self Worth

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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• Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• All is well, tho' faith and form
  Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Form, Wells

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.138, Broadview Press

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• Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 05, 2011

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• Fear makes us feel our humanity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fearless, Humanity, Feels

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.147, BoD – Books on Demand

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