5 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes on Courage

Vincent Van Gogh quotes on courage

35. I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

54. If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

58. It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

72. One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

91. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?