Motivational Website

Albert Einstein

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
“I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”
“In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.”
“We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.”
“Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.”
“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”
“Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.”
“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”
“Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all.”
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.”
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
“Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
“Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”-
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”