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Quotations About Courage
page 1 page 2 page 3 These quotes are about having courage or may give you courage when you need it.
Remember no one can make you feel inferior
without your consent. If you think you are too small to be
effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify
our blessings. One can never consent to creep when
one feels an impulse to soar Let yourself be open and life will
be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable.
A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. The person who removes a mountain begins
by carrying away small stones. Life shrinks or expands in proportion
to one's courage. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed
his grasp, or what's heaven for? Fortune
favors the bold. Every oak tree started out as a couple
of nuts who stood their ground. The journey of a thousand leagues begins
from beneath your feet. The beginning is the most important
part of the work. Plato To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary
to lose everything else It is a blessed thing that in every
age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions When you try to do something you've
never done before, you risk falling on your face. It is what we fear that happens to
us. This the last of human freedoms--to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own
way. A life making mistakes is not only
more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all. Daring ideas are like chess men moved
forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. He who gains victory over other men
is strong; but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful. Let
me listen to me and not to them. When
your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole
heart. In the long run we get no more than
we have been willing to risk giving. To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies. You haven't failed till you quit trying.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking
upward. Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as whole experience
it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing. If you see a whole thing- it seems
that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But up close a world's all dirt
and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
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