#fear

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#bright #except #fear #feeling #future

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear. ↗

— Sting

#being #being mad #fear #i #mad

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#act #caring #desire #fear #love

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. ↗

— Emmanuel Teney

#fear #guarantees #love #necessary #none

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#find #great #hard #i #motivator

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. ↗

— Don King

#because #better #feared #help #i

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i