Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

Courage conquers all things.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.