
Fear is a way to limit the quality of your life.
- Topic: Fear, Life, Quality
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
