But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.