Fearing Quotes
183 quotes by 155 authors
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is…
— James Broughton
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I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think,…
— Sandra Bullock
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the…
— Isaac Asimov
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for…
— Sun Tzu
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we…
— Carter Heyward
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
— James A. Baldwin
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The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.
— Kyuzo Mifune
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used…
— Herbert Hoover
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
— Francis Bacon
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Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that.…
— Kim Du-han
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While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one that…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.
— Gilles Dauve
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Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them,…
— John G. Lake
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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or…
— Madonna Ciccone
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