We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.

-- John Templeton

Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it — even though others may hesitate or differ.

-- Benjamin Graham

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

-- Bertrand Russell

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus

Short selling is intellectually much harder than going long. You need to have a thesis, and you also need the courage to stick with it when things go against you.

-- David Einhorn

Creativity takes courage.

-- Henri Matisse