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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
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Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Adventure is the child of courage.
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I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
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The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life expands to fill your dreams.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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