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Courage Quotes

1. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause

2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson

3. The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

4. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

5. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd

6. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hansen

courage quotes7. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

9. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

10. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho

11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

12. One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson

13. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin

Inspiring Quotes

I’ve selected for you 10 Inspiring Quotes for a better day. Enjoy!

“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.” – Polly Berends

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John Mitchell

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez

Inspiring Quotes“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce

“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be – consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.” – Neal Donald Walsch

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

What’s your favorite?

Top 20 Mark Twain Quotes

Top 20 Mark Twain QuotesMark Twain is one of my favorites writers. In my point of view, he was a genius, like many others on this site. Let me share with you some great Mark Twain Quotes.

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain

“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation” – Mark Twain

“It is easier to stay out than get out.” – Mark Twain

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” – Mark Twain

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore” – Mark Twain

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” – Mark Twain

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

“Whatever you say, say it with conviction” – Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes

mark-twain– “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
– “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
– “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

– “An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”

– “Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”

– “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

– “By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.”

– “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

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

– “Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

– “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

– “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

– “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

– “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.”

– “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

– “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

– “Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”

– “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.”

– “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

– “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”

– “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”

– “I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

– “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.”

– “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

– “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

– “I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”

– “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”

Feeling Lonely Quotes

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain