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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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RESPONSIBILITY QUOTES

RESPONSIBILITY QUOTES

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennet

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
― tom robbins

“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Criss Jami

“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
― John Lennon

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
― Warren Ellis

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
― Paulo Coelho

“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no innocent bystanders … what are they doing there in the first place?”
― William S. Burroughs

“I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
― Reginald Rose

“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
― Wendell Berry

“I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
― Ann Richards

“Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.”
― Steve Maraboli

“We are free to choose our paths, but we can’t choose the consequences that come with them.”
― Sean Covey

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.”
― Lev Grossman

“I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.”
― Criss Jami

“If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.”
― Sam Killermann

“Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!”
― Steve Maraboli,

“The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
― Jon Ronson

“Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”
― Kevin Powers

“The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”
― Ayn Rand

“Guilt—if there was any guilt—spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything…. Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.”
― Philip K. Dick

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VIRTUE QUOTES

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. ”
― Mae West

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
― Billy Joel

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
― Sigmund Freud

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith

“I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
― Joss Whedon

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

“‎It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.”
― Jim Butcher

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“… everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Wisdom ain’t a virtue I ever aspired to.”
― Moira Young

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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― George Washington

“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
― Confucius

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”
― Epictetus

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
― Milan Kundera

“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
― Aristotle

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
― Emilie Autumn

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”
― Marquis de Sade

“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.”
― Abhaidev

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”
― Ayn Rand

“Those of us who aren’t summoned by the Dark Mark consider honesty to be a virtue.”
― Christina Lauren

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”
― Deanna Raybourn

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
― Vanna Bonta

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you’ve got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
― Mark Twain

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”
― Voltaire

“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
― Akhenaton

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RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES

RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
― Glen Cook

“I’m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I’m right.”
― John Grisham

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Criss Jami

“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― C.S. Lewis

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
― Criss Jami

“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”
― John Bradshaw

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”
― Adrian Rogers

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”
― Confucius

“Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Better be a happy insincere than a troubled righteous, who complains about the unjust world all the time.”
― Abhaidev

“Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.”
― Clive Barker

“That’s the trouble with you preachers,” he said. “You’ve all got too good to believe in anything,” and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.”
― Flannery O’Connor

“The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure.”
― J.R. Ward

“Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority”
― François Du Toit

“Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.”
― Sherry K. White

“Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.”
― Nadia Hashimi

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”
― Gregory David Roberts

“If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man is meant to sacrifice many things for a woman, save his VIP: his Verity, Integrity, and Probity.”
― Criss Jami

“The reaction of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
― J.I. Packer

“The person who finds that simple flaw, or mistake you made, then broadcast it. It’s their search for validation, at your expense. That’s the one thing missing in their life. Their self centered judgement will be met with themselves being judged. In Jesus name, amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“Lies are oxygen to the wicked as truth is to the righteous.”
― Joan Ambu

“A nation can be born in a day. The day righteousness is granted access and corruption is banned.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“The sin-ridden heart does not fear God but fears man, and when saying it loves men, it loves sin.”
― Criss Jami

“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Life has its own light to reflect upon itself…sooner or later it tends to come back for the righteous people, even if it’s gone for a long time.”
― Munia Khan

“I don’t like righteousness, I don’t. To my ears, righteousness sounds like the chatter made by birds in cages when the birds of the skies fly by.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Respond only to the righteous criticism from righteous people in a righteous way.”
― Dido Stargaze

“There’s more rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“There’s more powerful rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“In God’s household, we have solidarity with one another in suffering, which reveals our true hope for the fruit of righteousness.”
― Aimee Byrd

“The righteousness will not disappear if you hide it the spirit will feel it and all the bonds will shout.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Those who are walking in the righteousness of Christ will be strengthened by persecution and fire, not destroyed. Fire reveals what cannot be destroyed.”
― T.F. Tenney

“The righteous are rarely kind and the kind are rarely righteous.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The road of righteousness is narrow that leads to life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Only righteous path leads us to the right way”
― Munia Khan

“Sometimes you stand in a difficult dilemma: are the people around you too righteous or too naive? Perhaps naivety is simply sincere righteousness without a social mask.”
― Elmar Hussein

“Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
― John Bunyan

“A man’s righteousness shall be his reward.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whoever desire life must travel on the road of righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Start the day with PRAISE,
Live the rest with RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
and ends them with THANKS-GIVING”
― Bradley B. Dalina

“Without any of us saying a word, righteousness will come from Jesus Christ.”
― Ron Baratono

“Religion without righteousness of Faith is vain hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christ embraced me with all my sin and guilt that I may embrace him in all his righteousness.”
― Frederick S. Leahy

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