“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.”

“Bravery is the acknowledgment and the conquering of fear.”

“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.”

“I say, embrace fear as a friend. It is nature's gift to us. It is the best weapon for liberty. We do not give our permission to be enslaved by acknowledging its presence. Instead, it permits us to escape into the forest if we must. But it does not prevent the boy from rising off the ground one more time to defeat the bully. Fear is presented to us as a signal of danger. It permits us to escape or to fight with power beyond our ability.”

“Don't fear failure.”

“So long as you refuse to ever acknowledge failure, success becomes eternal, a downward curve, always approaching failure, but never quite reaching it.”

“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”

“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”

“In every experimentation, without the passion, failure would arise on the birth of any idea.”