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Courage Quotes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

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

7. 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

Top 20 Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

Mark 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

Ancient Quotes

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

Let me share with you some great, famous, ancient quotes. I mean, wise quotes from ancient people.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. – Philippos
I can conceive of two worlds. The world out there and the world within my head. – Philippos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. – Anaxandrides
Let us not misunderstand what courage really is. The absence of fear is the courage of the mad. Doing what is right in the presense of fear, is the courage of the noble. – Phillipos
My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them – Phillipos
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
They can because they think they can. – Virgil
We are what we repeatedly do. – Aristotle
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato

Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

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.”

Mark Twain Quotes #2

Posted on November 4, 2010November 3, 2010 by

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Chastity — you can carry it too far.

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

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

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

There is nothing that saps one’s confidence as the knowing how to do a thing.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

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

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.