Quotes About Leading By Fear

#1. Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

Richard Branson

#2. Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human.

Matthew Thomas

#3. Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.

Tom Althouse

#4. I love you,' he said. His voice shook with effort. 'I love you so much, it's like my whole life was just leading up to the moment I met you. And then as soon as I did, I lived in fear, every day, that you would be taken from me.' He looked down. 'I just never thought you'd be the one to do it.

Jocelyn Davies

#5. I believe every PERSON is beautiful. What you do with that beauty, how you develop it, is up to you.

Stacy London

#6. I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edmond De Goncourt

#7. The complete atheist stands on the next-to-last highest rung leading to the fullest and most complete faith (he may take that step, or he may not), but the indifferent man has no faith at all, except an ugly fear.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.

Coreen T. Sol

#9. Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

A.J. Darkholme

#10. When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#11. There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves

Lolly Daskal

#12. There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

Tahir Shah

#13. Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

Rick Yancey

#14. It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three - those who depend on you must never see it.

Daniel M. Ford

#15. When my assistant strolled into my office one idle Tuesday morning, I had no way of knowing this would be the moment everything changed. A series of dominoes tipping with a clack, all leading to an unexpected and crazy end. One I fear I won't ever recover from.

Kelly Moran

#16. When you are leading a tribe, a tribe that you belong to, the benefits increase, the work gets easier, and the results are more obvious. That's the best reason to overcome the fear.

Seth Godin

#17. What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#18. In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

Rick Warren

#19. Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible ...

Thomas Jefferson

#20. For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

Ban Ki-moon

#21. Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

Isaac Asimov

#22. Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

Ronnie Musgrove

#23. You can't force someone to love you, especially when you're incapable of loving them in return.

Micalea Smeltzer

#24. Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.

Regina Cates

#25. I concluded that I'm a competitor. And, whatever happens, you keep leading. You can't fear anybody. Why? Because at the end of the day, I might not be in this job a couple of years from now. I'm here to win.

Masai Ujiri

#26. The average person has 50 negative thoughts in a day, leading to stress, which leads to fear and anxiety. This is the bad stuff that can break our bodies down.

Gregg Michaelsen

#27. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#28. The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).

Alain De Botton

#29. Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

Alex Berenson

#30. I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Sylvia Plath

#31. In 1991, the average bra size in the U.S wad 34B. Today (2007) it's 36C.

Dan Taylor

#32. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#33. In order to exist, man must rebel.

Albert Camus