Quotes for Courage

“I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.”

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”

“My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“Staying in one place is the best path to be taken over and surpassed by many.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.”

“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.”