Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.