Quotes Mentor

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.