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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Related topics: Motivational Positive Success Courage Persistence Perseverance
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Life expands to fill your dreams.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
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 (Serenity Prayer)
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am what I am.
- Village People
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