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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
~ Sir Thomas Browne, in Religio Medici, section xliv
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon
Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
~ Charles Swindoll
Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ Terence, in Phormio
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Four Georges
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De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace! [Audacity, audacity again, and audacity always.]
~ Georges Danton, to the French Legislative Assembly on September 2, 1792
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
~ Nicholi Machiavelli, in Discourses
In audacity and obstinacy will be found safety.
~ Napoleon I, in Maxims of War
Desperate affairs, require desperate remedies
~ Horatio Nelson
The gods favour the bold.
~ Ovid, in Metamorphoses, x
Bold decisions give the best promise of success.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in Rules of Desert Warfare
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene
Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ William Shakespeare, in Cymbeline
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester
Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3
Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown
The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown
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A man’s character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
~ Paul “Bear” Bryant
A crisis is not only character building; it is character revealing.
~ Rick Casterline
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
~ Billy Graham
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller
To succeed is nothing, it is an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different, it is character.
~ Marie Leneru
Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don’t turn up at all.
~ Sam Ewing
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
~ Plutarch
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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
~ Mary Kay Ash
A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~ John Burroughs
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie
A champion is one who gets up even when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsey
The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.
~ Walt Disney
We will either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~ Herbert Kaufman
Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
~ Paul J. Meyer
Trying times are not the times to stop trying.
~ Ray Owen
I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
~ J.C. Penney
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~ Norwegian Proverb
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ C. H. Spurgeon
Anyone can CARRY HIS BURDEN
however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone, can DO HIS WORK,
however hard, one day.
Anyone can live SWEETLY, PATIENTLY, LOVINGLY,
until the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really is.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
– Lee Trevino
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley
We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff
Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar
SILENCE when your words would hurt.
PATIENCE when your neighbor’s curt.
DEAFNESS when the scandal flows.
THOUGHTFULNESS for other’s woes.
PROMPTNESS when stern duty calls.
COURAGE when misfortune falls.
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“So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord!” Psalm 31:24 NLT
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