Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~By Anatole France ~
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
~By John Doolittle ~
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 ~
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
~By Quintilian ~
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
~By Aristotle ~
But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
~By Samantha Morton ~
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
~By Howard Cosell ~
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~By Sydney Smith ~
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
~By Tom Ford ~
You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.
~By Herman Gorter ~
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
~By Lois Capps ~
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
~By Umberto Eco ~
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
~By Marlon Brando ~
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
~By Robert Morgan ~
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
~By George Weinberg ~
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 ~
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~By John Burroughs ~
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
~By Whitney M. Young ~
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 ~
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
~By John Breaux ~
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
~By Chris Bell ~
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
~By Richard L. Evans ~
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.
~By Thuy Trang ~
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
~By Bart Starr ~
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
~By Charles Williams ~
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
We must be willing to courageously invest in our city.
~By Alan Autry ~
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
~By Rene Cassin ~
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 ~
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
~By Jerome Cady ~
I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
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'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
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 ~
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~By Plutarch ~
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~By Andre Malraux ~
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
~By William J. Slim ~
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
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 ~
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~By Richard L. Evans ~
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
~By Simone Weil ~
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
~By Rand Paul ~
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Being gifted needs courage.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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 must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
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 ~
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 ~
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
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 ~
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
~By Virgil ~
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
~By Dennis Moore ~
I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.
~By Robert Towne ~
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
~By Logan P. Smith ~
We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.
~By John Dean ~
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.
~By Maurice Strong ~
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~By Leon Blum ~
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 ~
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
~By Bob Edwards ~
It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
~By Michael York ~
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
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 ~
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
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 ~
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
~By Nigel Dennis ~
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
~By David Seabury ~
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