Perspective Quotes

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

— Henry David Thoreau

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.'

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

— Nelson Mandela

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

— William Shakespeare

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Mark Twain

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

— Joan Didion