139 Deepest Fear Quotes

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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. — Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson

Fear is the highest fence. — Dudley Nichols

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. — Jim Morrison

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. — Sam Snead

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears — Richard Paul Evans

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman. — John Carpenter

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. — Thomas Carlyle

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear. — Debbie Ford

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. — Patrick Swayze

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen

Short Deepest Fear Quotes

  • Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. — Phil Kay
  • Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. — Daniel Defoe
  • Write about the emotions you fear the most. — Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus
  • What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
  • It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
  • What worries you, masters you. — John Locke
  • Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. — Samuel Butler
  • Fear of death is worse than death itself. — Gosho Aoyama

Deepest Fear Image Quotes

Deepest fear quote Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.

Our Deepest Fear Quotes

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. — Margaret Guenther

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. — Ayelet Waldman

Deepest fear quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. — Tullian Tchividjian

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. — Marianne Williamson

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? — Marianne Williamson

Deepest fear quote The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear. — Tony Robbins

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. — H. P. Lovecraft

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the dark place. Our humiliations and secret fears and deepest anxieties, those times where we were at our worst: that's the best material. — Leslie Pietrzyk

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. — Richard Russo

Biggest Fear Quotes

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me. — Robert Downey, Jr.

My biggest fear is that I’m going to die without having really lived. — Naval Ravikant

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous. — Jon Gordon

Deepest fear quote I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

The fear of failure is often the biggest obstacle to success. — Alexei Navalny

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. - Evita Peron

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. — Evita Peron

The biggest thing you fear in remote work is things are going to fall through the cracks. And if you have your communication set, then that doesn't happen. — Kyle Roof

Deepest fear quote Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

The biggest strength I have is, I have no fear. — Nirmal Purja

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. — Noah Weinberg

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up. — Nick Jonas

Worst Fear Quotes

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. - Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. — Rudyard Kipling

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them - Rita Levi-Montalcini

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry

Deepest fear quote Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

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

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. — William Wrigley Jr.

Deepest fear quote Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. — Carol Leifer

Being afraid is the worst sin there is. — Jean-Paul Belmondo

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us! — Garth Stein

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear. — Norman Reedus

Your Biggest Fear Quotes

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. — John Tesh

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear. — Robin Sharma

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. — Jack Canfield

Deepest fear quote Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.
Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory. — Nick Cave

Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things. — Emmitt Smith

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself. — Iyanla Vanzant

Deepest fear quote Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down. — Alan Shearer

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable. — Bryan Cranston

It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself. — Olivia Wilde

Our Greatest Fear Quotes

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. — Francis Chan

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well. — Sonia Sanchez

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears! — Craig Groeschel

My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen. — Paul Polman

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Nelson Mandela

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ. — Luci Swindoll

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

Fears Of Life Quotes

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley

We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. — Yip Man

The secret of life is to have no fear. — Fela Kuti

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. — Jim Morrison

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. — Sydney Banks

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Conquering Fear Quotes

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer - Nas

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer — Nas

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy — Dale Carnegie

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear. — Harry Houdini

We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. — A. B. Simpson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feel the fear and do it anyway. — Susan Jeffers

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear. — Edmund Burke

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More Deepest Fear Quotes

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Barack Obama

You want to be ‘the guy’ who services this type of person or solves this type of problem. And even more niched ‘I solve this type of problem for this specific type of person in this unique counter-intuitive way that reverses their deepest fear. — Alex Hormozi

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. — Richard Wright

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows — E. E. cummings

You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: #God's light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings. — Shakti Gawain

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. — David Seabury

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend. — George Tenet

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart) — E. E. cummings

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. — John Ortberg

Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others. — Jennifer Young

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. — Christopher Hitchens

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. — Sylvia Plath

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway

The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune. — Edward Gibbon

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears. — Allen Tate

When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk. — Keshia Chante

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength. — Oprah Winfrey

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be. — Guy Finley

You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts. — David Deida

In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair, Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations, Through our doubts and frustrations, In my violence and my turbulence, Through my fear and my confessions, And my anguish and my pain, Through my joy and my sorrow, In the promise of another tomorrow, I'll never let you part, For you're always in my heart. — Michael Jackson

Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read. — Steven Saylor

I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. — Jim Morrison

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. — Margaret Bechard

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. — Neale Donald Walsch

There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear. — Jean De La Fontaine

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