A Quote by Sylvia Plath

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
American - Novelist
October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Bruno Jasienski

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Napoleon Hill

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

Peace Pilgrim

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

Norman Vincent Peale

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Dorothy Thompson

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!

Les Brown

Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Napoleon Hill

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

James Frey

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

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love.

Margaret Mitchell

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Dorothy Thompson

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.