John Paul Jones Quotes

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• 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.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• 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.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Chance

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• 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.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • God
  • Faith
  • Challenges

• Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Perfect

• I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Issues
  • Speech
  • Debate

• If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • People
  • Husband

• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Fear
  • Faith