Great Throughts Treasury

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Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Fear is attachment to security... Guilt and fear arise from a conviction you have accepted about yourself.

Character | Fear | Guilt | Security |

Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Self-pity deprives us of the beauty of the past; fear deprives us of the beauty of the future; and jealousy deprives us of the beauty of the moment.

Beauty | Character | Fear | Future | Jealousy | Past | Pity | Self | Beauty |

Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar

Fear arises in two forms. Either you fear losing what you have, or you fear not getting what you want.

Character | Fear |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

It is rascally to steal a purse, daring to steal a million, and proof of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Blame | Character | Daring | Greatness | Guilt |

Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz, aka Pinchas or Pinchos of Koretz

Imagine a man was standing before a king. Someone comes along and slaps that person in the face. Out of fear of the king the man will be almost oblivious to the blow. Moreover, he will think to himself, “I can’t retaliate now. The king witnessed what he did tome. If the king approves, nothing I do will help. If the king disapproves of what he did, the king himself will punish that person for what he has done to me.” Similarly we are in the presence of the Almighty and should not reply to insults.

Character | Fear | Man | Nothing | Will | Think |

Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, aka Beis Halevi

Fear destroys desires... Even a small amount of fear of the Almighty will remove your coveting.

Character | Fear | Will |

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it.

Character | Envy | Fear | Jealousy | Superiority |

Erwin H. Schell

Man is at his best when stimulated by hope of reward, fear of failure, and the light of a star.

Character | Failure | Fear | Hope | Light | Man | Reward | Wisdom |

Judy Tatelbaum

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express and release our feelings fully and to tolerate and accept our feeling for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged grief will bowl us over. The truth is that grief experienced does dissolve. Grief unexpressed is grief that lasts indefinitely.

Attention | Character | Fear | Feelings | Grief | Means | Order | Truth | Will | Work |

Jeremy Taylor

A great fear... is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produced religion.

Character | Fear | Religion | Superstition | Parent |

William Graham Sumner

The four great motives which move men to social activity are hunger, love, vanity, and fear of superior powers. If we search out the causes which have moved men to war we find them under each of these motives or interests.

Character | Fear | Hunger | Love | Men | Motives | Search | War |

H. W. Andrews

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

Action | Better | Consideration | Courage | Decision | Experience | Failure | Fear | Habit | Judgment | Man | Mind | Nothing | Position | Question | Responsibility | Right | Time | Will | Wisdom | Failure |

Alexander The Great NULL

One butcher does not fear many sheep.

Fear | Wisdom |

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts... and strives without fear of man to do justice to them.

Fear | Justice | Man | Wisdom |