Quotes By, For and About Sixes

People who anticipate the world's dangers. When healthy they are often courageous, loyal and effective or cowardly, masochistic and paranoid.

"Fear is faithlessness." - George MacDonald

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." - Shakespeare
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"A reasonable probability is the only certainty." - Edgar Watson Howe

"It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad." - La Rochefoucauld

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Samuel Johnson

"Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing ... Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." - Helen Keller

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A thief believes everybody steals." - E.W. Howe

"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally occasion ourselves." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention." - Francis G. Wickes

"To fear the worst often cures the worse." - Shakespeare

"The only known cure for fear is faith." - William S. Sadler