| Brave: ( courage...chivalr... confiden... ) |
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| The courage to persist: In 1894, the rhetoric teacher at Harrow in England wrote on a sixteen-year-old's report |
| card, "A conspicuous lack of success." Winston Chruchill persited. --- Winston Churchill 1874 |
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| Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn |
| away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression. --- Bertrand Wilbertforce |
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| Be strong and courageous, and do the work. --- Chronicles 28:20 |
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| Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers |
| you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as |
| succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... |
| Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody |
| can be you as efficiently as you can. --- Norman Vincent Peale 1898 |
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| Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. --- Franklin P Jones 1832 |
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| Bravery never goes out of style. --- William M. Thackeray |
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| Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. --- Eddie |
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| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. --- Anon xxxx |
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| Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous |
| facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered. --- Wilfred A. |
| Peterson |
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| Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation. And, if you want a |
| situation changed badly enough, you will find these three things. --- Anon xxxx |
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| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. --- Erica |
| Jong 1942 |
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| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events ... |
| it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. --- Robert F Kennedy 1925 |
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| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. --- Henry David Thoreau 1817 |
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| 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. --- Serenity Prayer |
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| I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and |
| endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. --- |
| Henry David Thoreau 1817 |
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| Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams. --- Ralph |
| Waldo Emerson 1803 |
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| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, |
| he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. --- Henry David Thoreau 1817 |
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| If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. |
| Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and |
| conscience in a room by himself. --- Arthur Schlesinger |
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| If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your |
| ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. --- Rosalyn Carter |
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| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --- Anais Nin |
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| Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. --- Marcus T Cicero 106BC |
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| Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore. --- Anon xxxx |
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| Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being |
| imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. --- Martha Boaz |
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| Never yield your courage - your courage to live, your courage to fight, to resist, to develop you own lives, to be |
| free. I'm talking about resistance to wrong and fighting oppression. --- Roger Baldwin |
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| Non one has looked back sadly on a life full of experiences, but many look back wishing they had had the courage |
| to do more. --- Anon xxxx |
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| One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness -- simple |
| tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. |
| Happiness is no vague dream. --- George Sand 1804 |
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| One man with courage makes a majority. --- Andrew Jackson 1767 |
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| Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a |
| spirit of self-sacrifice. --- Alexis De Tocqueville |
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| Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. --- Thomas Carlyle 1795 |
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| 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 1879 |
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| 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. --- George Bernard Shaw 1856 |
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