“At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.”
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“I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.”
“I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.”
“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”
“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”
“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
“In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.”
“I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.”
“I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.”
“I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.”
“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”
“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.”
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”
“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.”
“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.”
“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.”
“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”
“When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.”
“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.”
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”