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Success Quotes for overcoming fear

Prompting action through Success quotes

Within families there is a well meaning desire to have children or other family members accomplish something special in life. This is often beyond their comfort zone. Lofty goals are set for children or even for parents or other adults. These expectations may require an unreasonably high level of ability and effort.

Key Sections

Running from the fear
Seeing the value of moving forward
Dealing with short term discomfort
Take action for success
The long term outlook
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Running from the fear

Children face many new things growing up. Learning to get along with others, handling peer pressure at school and in their neighborhoods, performing academically, dealing with failure in sports, and competing in other activities. Kids often don't understand why they need to be involved.

For adults it could be going further in a career path, getting involved in civic responsibility, dealing difficult inlaws, or raising rebellious children. Past failures have been painful. It is easy to find excuses for not getting involved.

For all these expectations, there may be a strong urge to run away from the issues and not face the risk of failure or embarrassment.

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Seeing the value of moving forward

On the other hand, the goals may be good for personal growth. Working through the issues can build strength and character. Sharing well selected success quotes can encourage and provide the resolve to continue.

Those that take on the challenges, however, still may experience unpleasant trauma. The issues faced are trying and stressful. Courage to continue sometimes needs come from others who have been through the fire.

Success quotes by famous peopleHere are some success quotes that encourage the value of staying strong through the pressure:

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
-- Bruce Barton

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success." - Thomas J. Watson

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight." -Mark Caine

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Dealing with short term discomfort

The pressure is often associated with events that are perceived to be significant or important. You feel that your readiness or ability to respond is inadequate. It could be a sports event, a music recital, or an interview. These are all situations test your competence. A midterm or final exam can have the same effect. The tendency is to doubt yourself.

In each of these cases you are tested. The symptoms might be a heavier heart beat, a stomachache, or a headache. You might even feel like throwing up.

Anxiety occurs when we see an upcoming event as stressful, unpleasant, or painful in some way. It impacts both the body and the mind. In stressful situations, adrenaline kicks in naturally to prepare you for what is coming. That's when you get the physical symptoms such as sweating and a pounding heart.

The process often starts by thinking about what could go wrong. Focusing ahead on the bad things could happen can ignite test anxiety. "What if I freeze or panic...." The problem can be magnified if you watch your own physical symptoms. The worse you feel, the worse you get. Your actual performance will also suffer.

Setting expectations too high could also trigger anxiety. The performance goals could be set by you or those around you. Pride can stand in the way of being realistic. By setting standards too high, stress and worry are likely to follow.

Preparation and study for a test is another common cause of anxiety. By not spending the necessary time to understand the material, the results will probably be as bad as you anticipate. You might cram just before the test. This may actually cause more anxiety as you realize what you don't know.

Tips for handling anxiety
For most situations there will be some nervousness. The important thing is to keep it under control so that you can do the best job possible. Here is a list of things to consider in looking for help:

Review how you manage your time. Determine what is needed for adequate preparation right from the beginning.
Plan in sufficient study/practice time.
Limit outside activities to a reasonable level.
Simulate activity ahead of time.
As the challenge approaches, get adequate rest.
Develop a comprehensive checklist to quickly review what obsticles will be faced.
Study how others dealt with similiar situations - Success quotes.
Don't get stuck on something you don't understand. Move on.
Don't panic. Think through things step by step.
Look around. How are others dealing with the same issues??

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Take action for success

Moving forward with something that scares you takes boldness and determination. You currently don't have the assurance that you will be able to meet the expectations. You need endurance to complete your work or finish the course.

Here are some success quotes to activate strength and courage:

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-Helen Keller

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
-Norman Vincent Peale

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The long term outlook

Hope quotes for an uncertain future
Most challenges do not work themselves out overnight. If you are dealing with relationship issues, healing and restoration can take a significant amount of time. Major projects could take years. Again encouragement is needed to persevere. A strong hope gives strength to carry on. The following quotes about hope:

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.”

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
-Napoleon Hill

"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them."
~Vincent McNabb

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Final Thought

Success quotes can provide encouragement to overcome fears and take on stressful hurdles. It is never too late to handle life better.

Other resources pertaining to success quotes...

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Inspirational QuotesThese are quotes which stir or move feelings or emotions inside us. That uplifing feeling is termed inspirational. You will find many of these quotes on various topics or subject areas listed on this site.

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