History has demonstrated that the most notable
winners usually encountered heartbreaking
obstacles before they triumphed. They won because
they refused to become discouraged by their
defeats.
- B. C. Forbes
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his
self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the
inability to use one's understanding without
guidance from another. This immaturity is
self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack
of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and
courage to use it without guidance from another.
Have courage to use your own understanding!
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing
is a courageous act: picking the results and
actions which you will make into your destiny.
- Peter Senge
Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage.
- Anais Nin
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged
someone else. No other argument is necessary to
suggest that never miss the opportunity to give
encouragement
- George Adams
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . .
courage usually involves a highly realistic
estimate of the odds that must be faced.
- Margaret Truman
Never look at the trombones. You'll only
encourage them.
- Richard Strauss, on conducting
Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me
yours--show me that it possible--show me your
achievement--and the knowledge will give me
courage for mine.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead.
That some should be rich shows that others may
become rich, and hence is just encouragement to
industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
Any man's life will be filled with constant and
unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day.
- Booker T. Washington
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. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires some of
the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has
its victories, but it takes brave men and women to
win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to
someone else
- Erma Bombeck
The bravest thing you can do when you are not
brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris
I am old enough to know that victory is often a
thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of
courage. What is at the summit of courage, I
think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with
the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you
- Paula Giddings
[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will
believe in us; we must match our aspirations with
the competence, courage and determination to
succeed.
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
US medical physicist
The only courage that matters is the kind that
gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mingnon McLaughlin
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt
anything?
- Vincent Van Gogh
The way to develop the best that is in a man is by
appreciation and encouragement.
- Charles Schwab
There is nothing better than the encouragement of
a good friend.
- Katherine Hathaway
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces,
and what he gives to others; that is hidden from
us and must remain so, though we are often allowed
to see some little fraction of it, so that we may
not lose courage. The way in which power works is
a mystery.
- Albert Schweitzer
(01/14/1875-1965)
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- Samuel Johnson
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy.
Energy we can release to compete in the marathon
of life Within each of us is a hidden store of
courage. Courage to give us the strength to face
any challenge Within each of us is a hidden store
of determination. Determination to keep us in the
race when all seems lost
- Roger Dawson
The 13 Secrets of Power Performance by Roger Dawson
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in
spite of it.
- Mark Twain
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has
been brought into manifestation through holding to
the vision, and often just before the big
achievement, comes apparent failure and
discouragement.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
Courage is like love, it must have hope for
nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and
more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and
a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition
from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand
it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses their intelligence.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage
to follow that talent to dark place where it
leads.
- Erica Jong
The security we crave would teach us to rest our
hearts in this world and pose an obstacle to our
return to God. . Our Father refreshes us on the
journey with some pleasant inns, but will not
encourage us to mistake them for home.
- C. S. Lewis
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager
rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a
collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a
reformer.
- H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment,
toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little
girls are made of; the hell with sugar and spice.
- Unknown
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a
fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave
toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail,
striving and faith the only strength it knows
- Frances Rodman
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tso
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
The bravest thing you can do when you are not
brave is to profess courage - and act accordingly
- Corra May White Harris
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't
know how far we can go.
- Bernard Malamud
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if
you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a
single courageous step would carry us through
them.
- Brendan Francis
Strength and courage aren't always measured in
medals and victories. They are measured in the
struggles they overcome. The strongest people
aren't always the people who win, but the people
who don't give up when they lose.
- Ashley Hodgeson
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms
come and go, It is the fragile blossom That opens
in the snow
- Alice MacKenzie Swaim
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to
your thoughts when they become anxious over the
outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety,
fear discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook,
which eventually leads to success.
- Brian Adams
Often I have found that the one thing that can
save is the thing which appears most to
threaten...one has to go down into what one most
fears and that process...comes a saving flicker of
light and energy that, even if it does not produce
the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a
trembling mortal to take one step further.
- Laurens Van Der Post
Every child comes with a message that God is yet
not discouraged by man
- Unknown
To have courage for whatever comes in
life-everything lies in that
- Mother Teresa
God Grant Me The Serenity To Accept The Things I
Cannot Change, The Courage To Change the Things I
Can And The Wisdom To Know The Difference
- Serenity Prayer
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but
also to moral weakness; when the danger increases;
she gives us greater courage
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This country was not built by men who relied on
somebody else to take care of them. It was built
by men who relied on themselves, who dared to
shape their own lives, who had enough courage to
blaze new trails -- enough confidence themselves
to take the necessary risks.
- J. Ollie Edmunds
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear
in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I
have lived through this horror. I can take the
next thing that comes along.' You must do the
thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The courage of life is often a less dramatic
spectacle than the courage of the final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph
and tragedy A man does what he must-in spite of
personal consequences; in spite of obstacles and
dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all
morality.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human
qualities because it is the quality which
guarantees all others.
- Sir Winston Churchill
As you move through life, set aside good ideas and
give them to others to encourage and inspire.
- Peter J. Daniels
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless
steel and keep on living
- Douglas Malloch