Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. ~By Russell Crowe ~
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. ~By Stephen Leacock ~
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ~By Thomas Mellon ~
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good. ~By Hal Price ~
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 ~
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. ~By Aaron Hill ~
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. ~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Freedom is a system based on courage. ~By Charles Peguy ~
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected. ~By Bob Woodward ~
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. ~By Steve Albini ~
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. ~By Peter Paul Rubens ~
I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time. ~By Danny Pintauro ~
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ~By Tracy Chapman ~
They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ~By Donald O'Connor ~
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged. ~By Camille Claudel ~
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. ~By Allen Tate ~
War is fear cloaked in courage. ~By William Westmoreland ~
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ~By Confucius ~
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else. ~By Michael Madsen ~
Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States. ~By John W. Snow ~
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now. ~By John W. Snow ~
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. ~By David Amram ~
Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ~By Henry Van Dyke ~
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. ~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
It is never too early to encourage long-term savings. ~By Ron Lewis ~
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. ~By Bob Edwards ~
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 ~
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future. ~By Jim Cooper ~
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. ~By Dave Barry ~
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~By Mark Twain ~
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ~By Thomas A. Edison ~
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing. ~By Leroy Chiao ~
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. ~By Bishop Robert South ~
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. ~By Richard Wagner ~
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. ~By George Porter ~
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. ~By Paul Kane ~
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. ~By Della Reese ~
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' ~By Billy Graham ~
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. ~By Daniel H. Hill ~
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged. ~By John Glover ~
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ~By William J. Slim ~
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. ~By Andrew Shue ~
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. ~By Dame Edith Evans ~
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. ~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it. ~By Willy Brandt ~
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. ~By Martin Van Buren ~
Because of a great love, one is courageous. ~By Lao Tzu ~
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. ~By Ronald Reagan ~
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. ~By Jim Hightower ~
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do. ~By Charles Kuralt ~
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. ~By William Arthur Ward ~
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. ~By Carson Daly ~
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. ~By Frances Perkins ~
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~By Jim Davis ~
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. ~By L. Neil Smith ~
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. ~By Josephus Daniels ~
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement. ~By Lisa Whelchel ~
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. ~By Robert Fisk ~
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. ~By Emanuel Celler ~
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ~By Leland Stanford ~
I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access. ~By Dorothy Denning ~
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. ~By Charles Wilson ~
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. ~By Paul Desmond ~
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~By Earl Nightingale ~
I would kiss you, had I the courage. ~By Edouard Manet ~
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. ~By Kurt Masur ~
Courage follows action. ~By Mack R. Douglas ~
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ~By Sarojini Naidu ~
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur. ~By Bram Fischer ~
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice. ~By Michael Kinsley ~
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. ~By David Viscott ~
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ~By Jascha Heifetz ~
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. ~By Barbara de Angelis ~
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. ~By Ian Mcewan ~
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. ~By Jonas Salk ~
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. ~By Elias Hicks ~
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. ~By Chris Cannon ~
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~By Lloyd Kaufman ~
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that! ~By Ken Hensley ~
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though. ~By Jim Henson ~
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Part of courage is simple consistency. ~By Peggy Noonan ~
One man with courage makes a majority. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift! ~By Nigel Dennis ~
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted. ~By Frederick Reines ~
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
One man with courage is a majority. ~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. ~By Omar Bongo ~
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