Top 36 Fear Commitment Quotes
#1. Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure - especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.
Mike Krzyzewski
#2. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.
Cecelia Ahern
#3. Netball is great for people with a fear of commitment.
Shane Rodgers
#4. Many readers fear that it would be disloyal to their commitment to stand apart and impersonally question what they are reading. Yet this is necessary whenever you read analytically.
Mortimer J. Adler
#5. When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell
#6. The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.
Connie Kerbs
#7. The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!
Terence McKenna
#8. When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."
Donald Miller
#9. We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.
Robert Dallek
#11. They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.
The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same burning degree that I detested commitment.
Being a statue was such a perfect job.
Amanda Palmer
#12. The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
#13. The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.
Larry Crabb
#14. People that say I have a 'fear of commitment' don't understand my relationship with popcorn.
Dov Davidoff
#15. When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin
#16. As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by ... full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#18. The first thing that happened was that Helen became an invalid - we know now that there was nothing wrong with her, but Livilla had given her the choice of taking to her bed as if she were ill or taking to her bed because she was ill.
Robert Graves
#19. Fearlessness isn't a place your reach. It's a commitment you make.
Robin Sharma
#20. It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn't either.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. Growing your own fruit at home is a wonderful treat and a huge money saver. Home grown food of any kind tastes delicious and being able to go outside and pick fresh fruit from a tree is something everyone should experience.
Julio Belson
#22. That is what marks out a warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment.
Paulo Coelho
#23. I murmured to J, "You are a bossy motherfucker. When were you going to have that discussion with me? The one about me moving in?"
He grinned. "I wasn't, babe. It was a fucking given."
I rolled my eyes. "Of course it was.
Nina Levine
#24. Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#25. The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around like rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.
Anne Morris
#26. Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.
Bob Newhart
#27. Dreamers don't fear change, challenge, commitment and responsibility.
Euginia Herlihy
#28. Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.
Bob Seger
#29. Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause
the cause of liberation.
Paulo Freire
#30. It's as though she holds to the walls of a canyon. If I move wrong she will look over her shoulder, let go, and take her chances with the fall.
Ally Condie
#31. I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work
John Geddes
#32. I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
Amity Gaige
#33. Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.
Larry Burkett
#35. Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
Hilary Mantel
#36. I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.
Douglas Massey
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