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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Send the harmony of a Great Desire vibrating through every fiber of your being. Pray for a task that will call forth your faith, your courage, your perseverance, and you spirit of sacrifice. Keep your hands and your soul clean, and the conquering current will flow freely.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that, that's fine. Live and let live. But for those who regret never trying, it's a shame because the Web, as complex as it may seem, makes it all possible

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

s past history and stand alone.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

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.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

The brave venture anything.