Quotable Quotes 7

[David Baxter]

Quotes on Courage
by Beyond Blue
Tuesday January 3, 2012

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot Poet

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” – John Petit-Senn

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” – Douglas MacArthur

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He conquers who endures.” – Persius

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”– Buddhist Saying

[Daniel]

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

~ Fred Rogers

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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." — G.K. Chesterton

[Daniel]

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”

~ G. K. Chesterton

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What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

~ Philip Zimbardo

[Daniel]

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. -- Winston Churchill

[David Baxter]

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman

[Daniel]

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”

― Rumi

[desiderata]

"The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it." ~ Marcus Aurelius

[David Baxter]

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ~ George Bernard Shaw

[desiderata]

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow." ~ Buddha

[David Baxter]

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances." ~ Victor Frankl