The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Of all the things that could frighten you,
you worry about my driving?
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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