Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Get mad, then get over it.

Single life is so overrated.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.