Can fear hold a person back from succeeding?

I think yes. Fear can stop you.

Read the Article titled: What Purpose Does Fear Have?
It distinguishes logical fear from illogical fear.

Yes .. .. fear may stop you even regular tasks...

YES Fear can be stifling and paralyzing and Yes I can and will hold you back!
" If you are not putting yourself in a position to fail... you are not putting yourself in a position to succeed". Success and failure are flip sides of the same coin."

yes, without risk how can you evaluate potential?

Fear is not good for growth.

Everyone is in fear when you first seen the world "FEAR" Yours memory is remind you all things which happens in the past. You have most fear of the things which you want to ignore or false. If you overcome to the fear then always be positive and don't give up.
Sure you have to overcome and succeeds.

@Marie

Most run away from fear, where the successful person eats fear for lunch

And then succeeds!!!

Human kind always doubts his dreams but don't doubt his fears. He has several kind of fears that often hold him back from success.

most successful people say that they are still fearful even thought they have accomplished so many things.

Fear Is Crippling, So Once There Is Any Form Of Fear, Even The Smallest Amount, One Cannot Move Forward.

It can if you let it. The interesting thing is what are people really afraid of? Usually it's the fear of failure, particularly in the eyes of family, friends and the public. The thing is you cannot really succeed unless you have some failures to learn from. So the fear of potentially failing has to be overcome to generate success.

Fear= false evidence appearing as real
yes it can...once you realize fear is not based on an objective threat, you are able to overcome everything.

Depends on which acronym for FEAR that you adhere to.
Forget Everything And Run
False Expectations Appearing Real
Face Everything And Rise
Hopefully one will choose the latter of the three. :-)

@ Mr. G. ..................... ;--)

WHEN TO APOFASISEIS VGALIS MONEY FROM SERIOUS BUSINESS; SELECT FROM THE LINK THAT I HAVE SET WIN !!!!

Panda, every so often you get me believing your not human....LOL

Thanks my human friend. ;--). Can you see me blushing? ;-)

Panda, that is why you are one of the smartest people on the planet (besides you're a Republican).

Fear is a successful persons greatest asset!