Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.[Henry Mencken] Quote:It requires more courage to suffer than to die.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.[Christopher Morley] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.[Albert Einstein] Quote:People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.[Author Unknown] Quote:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.[Jack Handey] Quote:He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.[D.H. Lawrence] Quote:Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.[Erica Jong] Quote:Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.[Pat Robertson] Quote:My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first![Earl Wilson] Quote:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.[Sun Tzu] Quote:War is fear cloaked in courage.[William Westmoreland] Quote:Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.[Plato] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. [E. M. Forster] Quote:Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. [Erica Jong] Quote:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. [Thucydides] Quote:Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. [Aristotle] Quote:Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. [Euripides] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. [Anais Nin] Quote:Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. [Plato] Quote:In the Societ army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. [Joseph Stalin] Definitions of: courageDefinition: The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.Definition: Heart; inclination; desire; will. Definition: That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. |
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