Greatest Fear quotes
74 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them."
"Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love."
"It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom."
"I had an old typewriter and a big idea."
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"The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger."
"Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear."
"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."
"Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life."
"I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress."
"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."
"Our greatest fears lie in anticipation."
"My greatest fear is to be misunderstood."
"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."
"I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry."
"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."
"I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness."
