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Quotes About Fears

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.
~ Lusia Strus
You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
~ Ellen Goodman
If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.
~ Joe Vitale
I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.
~ Frederick Lenz
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often illusions.
~ Staci A. Welch-Bartley
In every person's story there are unknowns-struggles only they know about, fears they've tried to overcome but still harbor, disappointments & sorrows they bear. The last thing any of us wants-or needs-is to be judged by others who don't know our stories, in part or at all.
~ Jane Clayson Johnson
He had little respect for the intelligence of other people at the best of times. Now, at the worst of times, he was inclined to regard them all as morons. His fears were warranted, but not altogether for the reasons one might have supposed.
~ Jane Hawking
Mara and his daughters are familiar to anyone who practises meditation; the revelation of dark repressed fears, barely remembered fragments of memory, doubts, erotic fantasy and foremost, the desire to get back to familiar ground.
~ Jane Hope
He flashed the warmest smile I'd ever seen, and my heart felt comforted. Maybe D.J. saw my insecurities, my fears. Maybe he knew God still had a lot of work to do in my life before I'd be good girlfriend material. Or maybe, just maybe, he saw beyond all that and simply wanted to flirt with the wedding coordinator instead of rehearse for the big night. I did my best to relax...and let him.
~ Janice Thompson
Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.
~ Jason Fried
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
His own people, the Dutchman thought, as men of the sea, had no liking for thunder. To them it brought harms and fears. But the Indians were wiser. They knew what it meant when the thunder spoke: the gods who dwelt in the lowest of the twelve heavens were protecting the world from evil.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fa?ade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I sang it as a gift to the audience, to the composer, to me. I sang it as a taunt to the Fates, too. I was weary of my fears as well as my desires, and so I sang it in simple defiance of all of it, even defying myself.
~ Alexander Chee
Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and - most importantly - movement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities.
~ Tara Stiles
Fears, insecurities, and the need to please can rule our lives. Our society is economically and socially set up for us to live under these pressures in order to maintain its control and survival.
~ Tara Stiles
The first thing we want to do is to take a look at what you want to get rid of and what you want to add. You want to get rid of your self-doubt and add more belief in yourself. You want to get rid of your fears and add more confidence. Whatever it is, when you think about your problem, you probably believed you were going to have it for the rest of your life.
~ Richard Bandler
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!
~ Richard Baxter
underscores the fact that parents' fears are well founded. The numbers don't lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss as random static or propaganda from any one interest group. The overindulgence that's epidemic
~ Richard Bromfield
Amid fears of a European war, Mexico was old news. The bishops knew this, and so treated Greene with kindness and respect as someone who could tell their story to a distracted world.
~ Richard Greene