Do one thing every day that scares you.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.