In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

—Ferdinand Foch

About Ferdinand Foch

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Ferdinand Foch ( FOSH, French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War in 1918.

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

—Ferdinand Foch

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

—Edmund Burke

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

—Dr. David M. Burns

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