I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
~By Larry Norman ~
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
~By Mason Cooley ~
There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
~By Norman Reilly Raine ~
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
~By Major Taylor ~
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 ~
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
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 ~
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
~By John Updike ~
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
~By Plautus ~
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
~By Robert Collier ~
I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
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 ~
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~By Roger Ascham ~
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
~By Ian Mcewan ~
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~By Hyman Rickover ~
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 is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
~By William Alexander ~
On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
~By James Cronin ~
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
~By Mariah Carey ~
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
~By Jason Mraz ~
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
~By Charles Schwab ~
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
~By Major Taylor ~
I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.
~By John Cameron ~
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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 ~
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 ~
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
~By Mike Ferguson ~
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
~By Robert Welch ~
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
~By Don Young ~
I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.
~By Judy Collins ~
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~By Erich Fromm ~
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 ~
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
~By Henry S. Haskins ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
~By James Callaghan ~
War is fear cloaked in courage.
~By William Westmoreland ~
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 ~
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
~By Bob Edwards ~
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
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 ~
Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
~By Michael Madsen ~
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 ~
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~By Plato ~
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
~By E. M. Forster ~
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~By Winston Churchill ~
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~By Frances Wright ~
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 ~
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
~By Georg Buchner ~
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
~By George W. Bush ~
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
~By Jerome Isaac Friedman ~
Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
~By Jose Carreras ~
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~By Jean Paul ~
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
~By Richard Linklater ~
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
~By Barry Lopez ~
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
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 ~
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
~By Moliere ~
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
~By Sydney Carter ~
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
~By Donna Rice ~
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 ~
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
~By Edmond Rostand ~
I discourage a cult of personality.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
~By Neal A. Maxwell ~
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
~By Eddie Rickenbacker ~
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
~By Laura Bush ~
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Courage follows action.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
~By George Eliot ~
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
~By Helen Slater ~
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 ~
A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
~By Kathleen Sebelius ~
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