The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

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

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

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

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Mine is better than ours.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.