Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Paul Newman

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Mark Twain

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Mark Twain

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.