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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best, it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is...

Quote by George S. Patton about duty, competition, fear, common sense, sense, human imperfections, man, being

I was just horrified. I thought the girls were going to...

I was just horrified. I thought the girls were going to kill Elvis. They would have if they could have gotten loose, I'm afraid.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about thinking

If you take the time and you analyse youself, you will...

If you take the time and you analyse youself, you will find out that what you want more, is what you are most afraid of it.

Quote by Bill Crosby about aspiration, contentment, time

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, things

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, tragedy, fear, things

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, teaching

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves? Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about temptation, proudness, vanity, truth, man, being, love, life

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Quote by John Davison Rockefeller about opinion, good, good luck

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's...

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Quote by Madonna about wish, people

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about life, longing, end

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, ...

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Quote by Philip Levine about power, mercy, god

If the love wouldn't exist I will be afraid of life.

If the love wouldn't exist I will be afraid of life.

Quote by Grigore Vieru about love, life

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making...

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Quote by William Hazlitt about friendship, enemies

Don't be afraid of happiness: it doesn't exist.

Don't be afraid of happiness: it doesn't exist.

Quote by Michel Houellebecq about happiness

truth is above people and doesn't need to be afraid of...

truth is above people and doesn't need to be afraid of people.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about truth, people, need

Thank you, beloved mother Thank you, beloved mother my star from dawn! without you I am afraid that the planet would get colder. I have worn your vigor, you have grown me, you have blossomed me for your dear mother the sun stays in...

Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about mother, contentment, immortality, miracle, celebrity, sun, law, light, secret, nature

I'm poor but I'm not afraid!

I'm poor but I'm not afraid!

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms

The irony makes you a person to be afraid of, but not...

The irony makes you a person to be afraid of, but not popular.

Quote by Tudor Vianu about irony, people, contentment

I said nothing about love, I have asked neither she nor myself if she loves me. I was enough for me that I loved her. And I was afraid that something might smash my happiness.

Quote by Lev Nicolai Tolstoi about happiness, nothing, love

People are always afraid of the truth.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Quote by Mickey Rourke about truth, people

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