“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 4

About William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

“To thine own self be true.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.”

“To me, fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

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