Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

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.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

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.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.