Fear grows when you fail to be courageous.

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.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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 must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.