Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

Frankly, this is not cojones, this is cowardice.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Don't be scared of what people will say.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.