#fear

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors. ↗

— Chilon

#merciful #neighbors #respect #strong #would

Fear created the first gods in the world. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#fear #first #gods #world

‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #love #motivational #poison #relationship

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#encounter #fearful #forget #friendly #hear

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#celebrity #deal #fear #females #i

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#fear #guides #i #just #know

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared