John Paul Jones Quotes
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
Quotes to Explore
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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I don't fear anything now.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, it doesn't matter to us. We have an audience and continue to serve that audience.
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I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.
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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
