F07 · Fear and Avoidance
Timidity and conflict avoidance
Habitual retreat from confrontation, self-assertion and necessary risk.
Cues
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“The greatest height of heroism to which an individual can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.”
“‘Anger is useful,’ says our adversary, ‘because it makes men more ready to fight.’ According to that mode of reasoning, then, drunkenness also is a good thing, for it makes men insolent and daring, and many use their weapons better when the worse for liquor. ... No man becomes braver through anger, except one who without anger would not have been brave at all: anger does not therefore come to assist courage, but to take its place.”
“A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition ... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways ... Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“By not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture ... For if I have ventured amiss - very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all - who then helps me?”