Overcoming Fear

OVERCOMING FEAR
"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis
"Not a single person has ever accomplished anything of significance without first feeling scared to death!" -- Rick Beneteau
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." -- Arianna Huffington
"To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be." -- Brian Tracy

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace
"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber." -- William Mather Lewis
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Charlotte Bronte
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." -- Maya Angelou

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball
"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." -- Rubel Shelly
"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it's totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn