It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
We will either find a way or make one.
No cause is hopeless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
I am forced to try to make myself laugh that I may not cry: For one or other I must do.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Our greatest glory is not in ever falling but in rising every time we fall.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
You have to endure what you can't change.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
I go to seek a great perhaps.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Dare to think for yourself.
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Most wars are won or lost in our own heads.
If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
I wouldn’t have seen it, if I didn't believe it.
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Whatever the clouds plan to do, I always trust in the sun, which never fails to come out.
Breathe deeply. You can get through this. You are stronger than you realize. Everything will be okay. You got this.
Master the chaos within yourself, and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm.
There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
Loyalty that is bought with money may be overcome by money.
Silence is a source of great strength.
There is no illusion greater than fear.
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.
You must not be afraid of your uniqueness, and you must care less and less about what people think of you.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Fear kills growth.
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
For everyone who's been afraid to step up... this is for you. Decide to do it and the Universe will support you.
Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Memory is the old, and it is afraid of the new.
It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.