A person fortified for a situation has nothing to fear.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

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.

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

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

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.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.