Are you afraid of the good you might do?

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.