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- To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
- Edward Weeks
- A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.
- Author Unknown
- The only thing to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
- Author Unknown
- We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
- Isaac Rosenfeld
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