Quotes About Fear Of Commitment

#1. Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

Hilary Mantel

#2. Netball is great for people with a fear of commitment.

Shane Rodgers

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. People that say I have a 'fear of commitment' don't understand my relationship with popcorn.

Dov Davidoff

#6. That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Richard Schickel

#7. In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Joel Kinnaman

#8. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#9. 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

#10. A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Virginia Woolf

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

Robert Duvall

#14. No man ought to commit his life into the
hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic:
because he is a Physician of no value.

Nicholas Culpeper

#15. How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

Kamisese Mara

#16. 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

#17. I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest
but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Gisele Bundchen

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

Anchee Min

#27. I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

Bernie Sanders

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable.

Damon Galgut

#32. Dreamers don't fear change, challenge, commitment and responsibility.

Euginia Herlihy

#33. Fearlessness isn't a place your reach. It's a commitment you make.

Robin Sharma

#34. When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.

Eric Whitacre

#35. I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work

John Geddes

#36. 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

#37. Into crates, but threw the bad ones away. 49 That is the

Anonymous

#38. When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go!

Gisele Bundchen

#39. The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

Helen Wills Moody

#40. One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

Edgar Cayce

#41. 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

#42. 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