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BENEVOLENCE QUOTES

As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works.

Robert Dodsley

All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

Chanakya


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

James Allen

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Joseph Joubert


There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

Henry Fielding

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Mencius

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava


God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Oliver Goldsmith

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Laozi

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Ann Plato

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Jimmy Sangster


A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Stiles

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Thomas Carlyle

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

Joanna Trollope

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we’re not like benevolent- it’s pretty basic.

Jon Fishman


Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Confucius

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Richard Branson

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

Confucius

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

Omar Khayyam

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Walter Bagehot

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

Hosea Ballou

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Charles Caleb Colton


The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

William Dean Howells

A man’s needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

Thomas Chalmers

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Jim Rohn

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

John Adams

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Ellen G. White


You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

William Blake

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.

Thomas Ken

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Laozi

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

Benevolence is a world of itself — a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Horace Mann

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Bertrand Russell


Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Sylvia Boorstein

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Khaled Hosseini

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

Maria Edgeworth

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Date Masamune

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Sun Tzu

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

John Welwood


We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there’s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

Terrence Howard

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Mencius

Mankind was my business… charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Charles Dickens

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Nirmala Srivastava

Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

Ge Hong

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

Laozi


No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

Horace Greeley

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Adam Smith

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

Emmanuel des Essarts

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

George Meredith


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Perspective Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett


“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
― Tim Burton

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole


“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder


“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon


“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell


“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie


“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright


“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz


“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw


“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen



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Passion Quotes

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova


“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, 

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley


“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott


“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus


“What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?”
― Lauren Kate

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“I’ll always choose you.” Yes that was the word. “Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
― Lauren Kate


“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
― Martha Graham

“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel


“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I
will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
― Lauren Kate


“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
― Julie de Lespinasse

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
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“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Let me love you, but don’t love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”
― Ann Brashares


“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
― Claude Monet

“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
― Gustave Flaubert


“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
― Candide

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
― Anaïs Nin


“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”― Ludwig van Beethoven


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Attitude Quotes

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson


“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don’t like you.”
― C. JoyBell C.


“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
― Criss Jami

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken


“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
― Lou Holtz

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ”
― Mary Ellen Chase

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
― Brian Tracy

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks


“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”
― William Shakespeare

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole

“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
― Thomas Fuller


“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem”
― Captain Jack Sparrow


“Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.”
― Sonia Rumzi

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― Sam Harris


“You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can.”
― Dan Howell

“My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”
― Mira Grant

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana


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FORGIVENESS QUOTES

FORGIVENESS QUOTES

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
― Will Smith

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
― Steve Maraboli

“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
― Jon Krakauer

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
― Rick Warren

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

“But we can’t go back. We can only go forward.”
― Libba Bray

“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain

“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
― Wm. Paul Young

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
― Emma Goldman

“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.”
― Susane Colasanti

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
― Wm. Paul Young

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?”
― Jodi Picoult

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama



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FEAR QUOTES

FEAR QUOTES

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
― Emma Donoghue

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
― Erica Jong

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
― Angie Thomas

“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
― Francis Chan


“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell


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FAILURE QUOTES

FAILURE QUOTES

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.”
― Sarah Dessen

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
― Ned Vizzini

“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells


“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
― Sabaa Tahir

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
― Steven Wright

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz

“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
― Amelia Earhart

“I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
― Napoleon Hill


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