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Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

Do the right thing because it is right.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.