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One
man with courage makes a majority.
President Andrew Jackson
"It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy
cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly;
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt Paris 1910
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of
the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the
freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to
a fair trial.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who
allows the protester to burn the flag....
We have not journeyed across the
centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains,
across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
Winston Churchill, Speech made to the Canadian Parliament, December
30, 1941.
To know what is right and not to
do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Courage is knowing what to fear.
Plato
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Great occasions do not make heroes
or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes.
Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong
or we grow weak,
and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
Bishop Westcott
If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,
we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
You must do the thing you think
you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We fear things in proportion to our
ignorance of them.
Titus Livius Livy
There comes a time in a man's life
when to get where he has to go—
if there are no doors or windows—he walks through a wall.
Bernard Malamud
Even the smallest victory is
never to be taken for granted.
Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle
at all,
to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
Audre Lorde
He who is not courageous enough
to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
Muhammad Ali
... And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even
more.
Erica Jong
Everyone has talent; what is rare
is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
If there is no struggle, there is
no progress.
Frederick Douglass
You can't be brave if you've only
had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
Courage is the price that life exacts
for granting peace with yourself.
Amelia Earhart
Despair and postponement are cowardice
and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
What you are afraid to do is a clear
indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Anonymous
Man cannot discover new oceans until
he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
Donīt make mountains out of molehills.
One who lacks courage to start has
already finished.
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