Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

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.

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.

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

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!