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Fear

"Embrace the thing you fear most and break it down into the smallest manageable parts and conquer one step at a time. This will create momentum. Momentum feeds the next and allows you to break through your fears, your dramas, your bad habits and patterns until you are able to uncover your true self that is perfection at its core." Jim Donovan

"Fear does not stop death. It stops life." Unknown

"Monsters are very real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King

"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." unknown

"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." Montaigne

"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you."Andre Previn

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." Glenn Clark

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." Shirley MacLaine

"You can conquer almost any fear if you make up your mind
to do so...remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere
except in the mind." Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American motivational speaker & author    

"You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing." Lewis Freedman

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." Aung San Suu Kyi

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears." Alice Walker, author (b. 1944)

"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." Rwandan Proverb

"Have no fear of perfection: you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali

“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

"Audacity augments courage; hesitation enhances fear." Nigerian Proverb

“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937)

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.” John C. Collins

“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” Lady Bird Johnson

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” Samuel Butler

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.” Lloyd Douglas (1877-1951) American Congregationalist clergyman and novelist

“The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear in its various guises is at the bottom of procrastination.” Edwin C. Bliss

“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” Anonymous

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ” Alfred Hitchcock

“Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.” Frederick Pierce

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