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~ Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. ~

George Lorimer

~ Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ~

Herbert Kaufman

~ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~

Erich Fromm

~ Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. ~

Og Mandino

~ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ~

John Quincy Adams

~ History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ~

B. C. Forbes

~ Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel. ~

Vanna Bonta

~ Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~

Mary Tyler Moore

~ Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ~

Ovid

~ Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! ~

Sir William Osler

~ Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements. ~

Joseph P. Wirthlin

~ True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. ~

Lord Shaftesbury

~ One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~

Maya Angelou

~ We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. ~

Mary McLeod Bethune

~ He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ~

Seneca

~ Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~

Arthur Koestler

~ I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace. ~

Rosa Parks

~ Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance ~

Alistair Cooke

~ Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow ~

Unknown

~ Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained ~

Arthur Somers Roche

~ If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so. ~

George Matthew Adams

~ Atheists put on false courage in the midst of their darkness and misaprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark,will sing or whistle to keep their courage. ~

Alexander Pope

~ Confidence is courage at ease. ~

Daniel Maher

~ Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~

Mary Tyler Moore

~ Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~

General George S. Patton

~ Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. ~

Seneca

~ Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ~

James Freeman Clarke

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