Top 100 Personal Fear Quotes
#1. amazement, shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened.
Truman Capote
#2. The religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
George Eliot
#3. Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men - and cowards.
Erwin Schrodinger
#5. It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person.
Donald Miller
#6. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#8. I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley
#9. Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.
Mark Lawrence
#10. Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. 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
#12. You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
T.A. Sorensen
#13. Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.
Peg Kehret
#15. Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear.
Marie Clair
#16. what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame.
Harriet Lerner
#17. I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.
Elizabeth Goudge
#18. Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.
John Wooden
#19. Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
Brian Tracy
#20. As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.
Soul Dancer
#21. Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.
Tom Althouse
#22. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
#23. TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.
Alexandra York
#24. The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
David Cronenberg
#25. Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.
William J. Clinton
#26. Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
John Dewey
#27. I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
Richard Hatch
#28. I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.
Tamara Mellon
#29. The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.
George Inness
#30. Dare to stretch hard and make it a point to do the hard thing others are afraid to try.
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Richard Rohr
#32. I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
Raymond Moody
#33. Failure doesn't means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest.
Ashish Patel
#34. If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." "I'm
Paulo Coelho
#35. Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.
Satish Kumar
#37. Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. At that moment I knew without a doubt that God himself was speaking to me. He cared. He was there. He came to help even when I could not call out loud or explain my fear in words.
Catherine Lawton
#39. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.
Lori Cash Richards
#40. If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.
Ted Hughes
#41. You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.
Eckhart Tolle
#42. Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.
Walt F.J. Goodridge
#43. The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.
Gerhard Casper
#44. I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going
to
wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards
but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and
sob about
how you've wasted your life.
Robin Brande
#45. Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words "do not be afraid" or "fear thee not" (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!
Pedro Okoro
#46. You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
Nicole Kidman
#47. Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.
April WIlliams
#48. From both my personal and my professional experience, I had come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully.
Irvin D. Yalom
#49. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#50. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
#51. There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
#52. Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
Bill Hybels
#53. Terror - what Hunter Thompson calls "fear and loathing" - often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. If that sense of unmaking is sudden and seems personal - if it hits you around the heart - then it lodges in the memory as a complete set.
Stephen King
#54. Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back.
Sheila Burke
#55. Leading with our heart requires replacing fear with faith. It means releasing the desire to control situations or people, or see the future, or change a past event. We accept our personal power by purposefully leaving no loose ends, so we move from day to day without regret.
Regina Cates
#57. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.
Soul Dancer
#59. Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.
Steven J. Lawson
#60. Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#61. Fear melts like ice when we allow love's divine light to shine upon our ignorance.
Soul Dancer
#62. In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.
Matthew Donnelly
#63. They do love their pretty colors," grumbled Tolya. "Don't give me any ideas," I whispered. "Maybe I'll decide my personal guard should wear bright yellow pantaloons." For the first time, I saw an expression very much like fear cross his face.
Leigh Bardugo
#64. I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
Albert Einstein
#65. Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment - and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
Sheryl Sandberg
#66. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
Lewis B. Smedes
#67. Where your fear is,
there is your task.
C. G. Jung
#68. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.
Erik Tomblin
#69. All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,
Addy Stevens
#71. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.
Wilhelm Reich
#72. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#73. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#74. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#77. When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.
Roshan Sharma
#78. Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.
Azar Nafisi
#79. Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
Aberjhani
#81. In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).
Jacques Philippe
#82. Find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#83. I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course. - Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
D.H. Lawrence
#84. In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Adolph Gottlieb
#85. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#86. At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
May Sarton
#87. The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
James Patrick McDonald
#88. The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true
Renae A. Sauter
#89. If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.
Wilhelm Reich
#90. And an attitude of trust and seeing your personal trials as a perfect part of your process of becoming will always serve you, especially since the only other option is fear, bitterness, and anger, and those emotions don't serve you at all.
Kimberly Giles
#91. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
Hunter S. Thompson
#92. Make a promise to yourself that you will always choose growth over safe and dreams over fear.
Brittany Burgunder
#93. Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.
Steve Pavlina
#94. To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#95. One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#96. Whenever a person holds onto personal rights, he sets himself up for the tyranny of fear when those rights are threatened. The only way to be free to experience God's will is to go thruogh life with a loose grip on everything around us. He is the only security we have life - and He is enough!
Steve McVey
#97. Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
Stendhal
#98. Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
Charles F. Glassman
#99. Mercy, who breaks God's commandments without fear or regret, who works hard to make others suffer, or who fights for personal gain at your expense
Sarah Price
#100. I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.
Fred Rogers
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