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Courage

«Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.»
«Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.»
Author: Charles Palmer | About: Courage, Wisdom | Keywords: exert, resolution, sullenness
«Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...»
Author: Mariah Carey (Singer) | About: Character, Courage, Focus | Keywords: discourage
«Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.»
«Necessity does the work of courage.»
«Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.»
Author: Roger Von Oech | About: Courage
«Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.»
«My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.»
Author: Clay Aiken (Singer) | About: Courage
«None but the brave deserves the fair.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Courage | Keywords: deserves
«Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.»