There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
