True nobility is exempt from fear.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

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

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

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.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

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

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Fear is exciting for me.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.