Worst Fear Quotes

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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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  He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

  Tom Rachman

  Memories, Illusion, End Of Life

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• One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Giving Up, Heart, Broken

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• There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Moments, Paranoia, Worst

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Surfing, Causes

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually come to pass, often in fabulous ways, but their adventures feel inevitable and true-not only because Ms. Black richly imagines her people, but because she loves them. I Knew You'd Be Lovely is a lovely debut, with masterful prose and inspired invention on every page.

  Ralph Lombreglia

  Dream, Real, Adventure

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• Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

  Robert Adams

  Beautiful, Thinking, Suffering

  "Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values". Book by Robert Adams, June 15, 2005.

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• So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
  unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fear, Order, Delight

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• We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Sister, Real, Judging

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.

  Sandy Woodward

  Fear, Reality, Faces

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• It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

  Maureen Dowd

  Men, Sin, Pins

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin

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• Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

  Tom Rachman

  Memories, End Of Life, Ends

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Fall, Rising

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• 'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single sentence could explain: it means two people that were brave enough to show their scars, vulnerability, rough edges, happiest thoughts, along with their worst fears, and find a mutual respect, appreciation, and fondness for one another; they achieved a gift that not many people get to experience in their lifetime in its truest form.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Appreciation, Mean

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dartmouth

  Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, 2011.

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• You're telling me that you can raise the dead by simply summoning?" "Yes." "My God," she whispered, staring at me."What have they done?" Hearing her words and seeing her expression, I knew I'd just done something worse than raising the dead-- I'd confirmed her worst fears about us. In her eyes, I saw the same thing I saw when people looked at Derek. I saw fear. And I knew we were in trouble.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Eye, Expression, People

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• My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

  Taylor Swift

  Parent, Respectful, Worst

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• If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

  Mary Balogh

  Madness, Pleasure, Worst

  Mary Balogh (2012). “The Temporary Wife/A Promise of Spring”, p.235, Dell

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• The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fear, Men, Modern

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.96, Random House

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• Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

  Marcel Proust

  Triumph, Achieve, Ends

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again”, ePenguin

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• The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Falling In Love, Records, Rich

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Acting, Shylock, Failing

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