Worst Fear Quotes

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

  Derrick Bell

  Change, Fear, African American

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• My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

  Adele

  Worst

  "Mad about the girl" by Sylvia Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Fear, Pants

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• I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

  Nelson DeMille

  Nuclear Terrorism, America, Worst

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• When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Sleep, Past

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• My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man

  Ashley Cole

  Men, Circles, Names

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• There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Levels, Said, Worst

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• Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Essence, Roots

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• Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Heart, Ambitious, Sides

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• I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kings, Kids, Drs

  "Shakespeare, to expand their globe" by Merrill Balassone, articles.latimes.com. September 6, 2005.

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• I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  Mom, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  Writing, Thinking, Worst

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Optimistic, Agreement, Want

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

  Louis Garrel

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Mother, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

  Ethan Hawke

  Children, Thinking, Play

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Generations, Lasts, Next

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

  Norman Reedus

  Dying Alone, Worst, Getting Old

  Interview with Anne Szustek, twelvmag.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Opportunity, Doubt

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.250, Humanix Books

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• I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best co-worker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen. Having people be mad at me is my worst fear. I can't stand it. There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.

  Nic Sheff

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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