None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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

Boldness be my friend.

You are victors, not victims!

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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.

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

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

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.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

I’m no genius.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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