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

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

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

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.

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.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

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

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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.

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.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Boldness be my friend.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

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.

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

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

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.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

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

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

From caring comes courage.

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

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

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