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

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

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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.

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

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

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

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.

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.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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?‘

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

One man with courage is a majority.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Boldness be my friend.

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

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.