Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I can handle pain.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

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.