"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear   

"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone."

Francis De Sales, St. on fear   

"Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another."

Harvey, Joan C. on fear
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Hurston, Zora Neale on fear
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"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."

Johnson, Samuel on fear   

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

Kierkegaard, Søren on fear
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"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

King, Billie Jean on fear   

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

Lincoln, Abraham on fear   

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Livy, Titus on fear
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"The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process."

Bryant, Jean on fear
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not."

Ching Ning Chu on fear
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"It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way."

Dale, Stan on fear   

"By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't."

Dworkin, Andrea on fear   

"It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."

Dyson, Freeman on fear   

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

Ashe, Arthur on fear
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"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death."

Bender, Betty on fear
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on fear
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"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

Young, Steve on excellence
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"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change."

Peters, Thomas J. on excellence
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"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

Riley, Pat on excellence
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"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."

Sanders, Col. Harland on excellence   

"Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want."

Sands, Bill on excellence   

"When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word."

Scott, Charles Prestwich on excellence   

"Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on excellence
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"There is no finish line."

Nike Corporation on excellence   

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both."

Michener, James A. on excellence   

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

Maugham, W. Somerset on excellence   

"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

Gaberino, Geoffrey on excellence
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on excellence
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"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service."

Goldsmith, Oliver on excellence   

"Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."

Knight, Charles on excellence   

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

Lombardi, Vince on excellence
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"Good enough never is."

Field, Debbi on excellence   

"There's a way to do better... find it."

Edison, Thomas A. on excellence
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"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed."

Darwin, Francis on excellence   

"A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on excellence
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"Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest."

Briggs, Dean on excellence   

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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