None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Topic: Fear, Hope
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Man is a social animal.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
While there's life, there's hope.
