“Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.”
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“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.”
“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.”
“I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.”
“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”
“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”
“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.”
“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.”
“Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.”
“Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”
“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”
“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.”
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
“I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.”
“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.”
“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”
“Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.”
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”
“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.”
“You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.”
“Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.”