Fear Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Not afraid Praise
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Praise is something when a person tells you about yourself that you have suspected all along. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see. — Carl Lentz Copy Share Image
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
