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Quotations About Courage
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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
.The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
.There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way,
comes to you.
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"In the hour of adversity be not without hope / For crystal rain falls from black clouds."
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary
winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when
you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is
awake."
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no
hope at all.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
.Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
The truth of the matter is that you ALWAYS know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.-- Erica Jong, author, Fear of Flying
Cowards die many times before their death. -- William Shakespeare -- Contributed by Unknown
"To sit quiet and think, is the hardest thing a person can do, for when he does, all the Demons of the universe, show up and try to keep him from the truth. But these Demons must be faced, then slayed, in order to live a life worth living"-- R.H. Lascelle
Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet, someone SURVIVED.---- Maya Angelou contributed by Kay
You can complain because roses have thorns of you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
~Ziggy
If you train hard you'll not only be hard but you'll be hard to beat. ~ Herschel Walker
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."--unknown
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do. GOETHE
*Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you.*--Shakespeare
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -Thoreau
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.--ee cummings
"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." ---unknown contributed by Sarah
"What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular."---unknown contributed by Sarah
Wisdom is not in words Wisdom is meaning within words ---Khalil Gibran
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!---Shakespeare---- submitted by Kathleen
if you build up too many tomorrows....all you end up with are a bunch of empty yesterdays. -- Anonymous
One Man with courage is Majority. --- Andrew Jackson
Creativity
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. --- Samuel Palmer
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.---Sir Winston Churchill
Other
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.---Austin O'Malley contributed by Brandy
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.----stephen king
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to the understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."-- Unknown It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt -- Unknown
sometimes holding on makes you stronger; sometimes its letting go--unknown
"Wisdom begins with wonder." -----Socrates contributed by Austin Hunt
She sees shooting stars and comet tails/she's got heaven in her eyes.She says I don't need to be an angel/but I'm nothing if I'm not this high -- Adam Duritz
Our greatest glory consists not of never falling,but in rising every time we fall. -- Oliver Goldsmith
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.---Derek Bok--- submitted by kathleen
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ----Don Marquis Contributed by Jinny
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