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Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
To dream the impossible dream...
And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable star.
- Joe Darion (the 1965 musical Man of La Mancha)
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will
to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
-
George Sheehan
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage.
-
Thucydides
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.
- Theodore H. White
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers.
We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
-
Ronald Reagan
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
said Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. [as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Success is not measured by what you accomplish,
but by the opposition you have encountered,
and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-
Orison Swett Marden
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage -
Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future,
I boldly set sail with courage and intent.
I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment,
as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I create Today as a celebration of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let today be the day that you choose to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage affirmation: I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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