Greatest Fear Quotes - Page 4

• The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!

  Craig Groeschel

  Pathways, Our Greatest Fear

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• My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

  Larry Burkett

  Hearing, Life Is, Lord

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• I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

  Beth Orton

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• When we believe we are losing control, we grab on tight. When our greatest fear comes upon us, we clench our fist and teeth, close our eyes and hold on. We must learn how to let go. When the time comes for growth and change, we must have the courage and faith to let go. Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 30, 2016

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• My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Book, Disappointing, Reader

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• I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Israel, People

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.

  Karen Wheaton

  Believe, Satan, Said

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• Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

  Dan Millman

  Wings, Forever, Soul

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• My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Character, Reflection

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• My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

  David Mamet

  Lines, Beats, Audience

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• I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Looks, Losing

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, People, Essentials

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Gone, Firsts, No Sleep

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

  David Benioff

  Men, People, Spiders

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Views

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

  Marcel Proust

  Able, Limits, Firsts

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• [Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

  Steig Larsson

  People, Laughing, Feelings

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• A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

  Stephen Colbert

  What If, Aging, Study

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2012

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• She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.

  Abbi Glines

  Crazy, Live Life, One Day

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

  Susan Mitchell

  Yoga, Personality, Ego

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• My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

  John McCain

  Real, Organization, Giving

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

  Carl Jung

  Military, Causes, Source

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• Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Imagination, Our Greatest Fear

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• The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  America, Average, Organization

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