Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

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.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

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.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

My life is a struggle.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

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.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

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

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.