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Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire. -- Dorothy Norman
The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain. -- Zig Ziglar
All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss. -- David Simon
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. -- Lionel Shriver
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. -- David Whyte
It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss. -- Cass Sunstein
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces. -- Richard Ford
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. -- Barbara Cooper
The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity. -- Jacque Fresco
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
the perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior -- Kenneth E. Boulding
A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. When people first fall in love they're more willing to do this because they're still getting to know each other and dependency has not yet set in. As soon as it does, though, people often stop sharing their true feelings out of fear of loss. -- Shakti Gawain
The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled. -- Anthony Storr
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -- John Steinbeck
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. -- Gary Zukav
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. -- Luke Ford
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. -- Michele Bachmann
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway. -- Uday Kotak
The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through. -- Tony Scott
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self? -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. -- Kamisese Mara
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. -- Brendan Myers
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. -- Martha Beck
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!' -- Caitlin Doughty
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks. -- Nouriel Roubini
I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances. -- Jenji Kohan
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The loss of control you fear is already in the past. -- Clay Shirky
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear. -- Diane Wakoski
Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known. -- Anthony de Mello
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain. -- Rick Warren
Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. -- Simona Panova
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. -- James Frey
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. -- Paul Krugman
Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction. -- Anonymous
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things. -- Paul Gilding
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement. -- Jeremy Taylor
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. -- Richard Alleine
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. -- Sebastian Faulks
Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. -- Rebecca Solnit
I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially. -- Christopher Rice
We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss. -- John Cage
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be. -- Nadine Gordimer
And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability. -- Judith Guest

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