Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~By Anais Nin ~
Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
~By Andy Gibb ~
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
~By Robert Crumb ~
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
~By Ruby Dee ~
I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.
~By John Cameron ~
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
~By Torquato Tasso ~
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
~By Jimmy Johnson ~
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
My parents really encouraged me.
~By Randy Castillo ~
If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
~By Ed Rendell ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~By Robertson Davies ~
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~By Anais Nin ~
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
Have the courage of your desire.
~By George Gissing ~
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
~By Lil' Kim ~
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
~By Robert Fortune ~
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Part of courage is simple consistency.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~By John Wooden ~
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
~By William Temple ~
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
~By Edward Albert ~
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
~By Gabriele D'Annunzio ~
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
~By Jeff Koons ~
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that "Popery" when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
~By Lord George Gordon ~
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
~By Dannii Minogue ~
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
~By Edouard Manet ~
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
~By Arthur Keith ~
There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
~By James Hillman ~
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
~By Marian Anderson ~
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
~By Louise Erdrich ~
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
~By Sean Penn ~
I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
~By John Simon ~
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
~By Owen D. Young ~
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
~By Mary Astell ~
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
~By Ben Stiller ~
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
~By Tony Snow ~
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
~By Megawati Sukarnoputri ~
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
~By Tommy Douglas ~
However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.
~By Estelle Morris ~
In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
~By John M. McHugh ~
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
~By Margaret Walker ~
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
~By Socrates ~
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
~By Mariah Carey ~
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
~By Major Taylor ~
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
~By Frances Rodman ~
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
~By Jake Gyllenhaal ~
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~By Plutarch ~
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
~By Paul Berg ~
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
~By Dean Smith ~
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
~By David E. Kelley ~
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~By Jean Paul ~
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
~By George Santayana ~
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
~By George Konrad ~
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
~By Stanislaus I ~
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
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