A common hindrance experienced by all of my clients
Career Management July 15th, 2008Every one of my clients so far has shared some fear when moving towards a goal. Fears block us from going forward. The opposite of fear is faith, hope, confidence… All of us have the potential to move from fear to a confident and positive perspective.
Read the following quotes from Dan Miller (48 Days):
Fear is the highest fence. – Dudley Nichols
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. — Henry Louise Menken
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. – Coleridge
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. – Mary Manin Morrissey
Fear is faith that it won’t work out. – Sister Mary Tricky
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
You can’t discover new oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. – Anonymous
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all. – Cervantes
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. – Louis E. Boone
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. – Lactantius
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears. – A. C. Benson
I’d enjoy reading your thoughts after you’ve read these quotes. You can contact me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com.
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