Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Post #2612

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
—Seneca

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Post #2153

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
—Livy

Monday, October 05, 2015

Post #1916

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
—William Shakespeare

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Post #1183

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Post #1058


Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
—Helen Keller

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Post #1023

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.
—W. Clement Stone

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Post #971

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
—John Steinbeck

Monday, April 30, 2012

Post #937

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
—Grace Hansen

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Post #842

To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.
—Sophocles

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Post #748

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
—Statius

Friday, October 07, 2011

Post #733

If all that Americans want is security, then they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed, and a roof over their heads.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Monday, May 23, 2011

Post #598

Envy and fear are the only two passions to which no pleasure is attached.
—John Churton Collins

Friday, March 11, 2011

Post #525

I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
—Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Post #508

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
—General George S. Patton

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Post #464

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Monday, December 27, 2010

Post #451

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
—Cardinal de Retz

Monday, November 22, 2010

Post #416

A man who is afraid will do anything.
—Jawaharlal Nehru

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Post #412

I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
—Psalms 34:4

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Post #403

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent van Gogh

Monday, October 18, 2010

Post #381

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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