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~ Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. ~

Alan Autry

~ Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul. ~

~ Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. ~

Bob Filner

~ Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ 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. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. ~

Warren G. Bennis

~ Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ~

Harry S. Truman

~ 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. ~

John F. Kennedy

~ Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down. ~

Albom, Mitch

~ Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it. ~

Lloyd Chudley Alexander

~ Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can\'t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~

Maya Angelou

~ These Americans are cowards, because if they were courageous, they would have confronted us face-to-face, rather than coming at us from behind. ~

Tariq Aziz

~ 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

~ 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

~ Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ~

Abraham Lincoln 1809

~ My theme is to make a difference right here in my own neighborhood. I don't have to fight the whole world. If I do well where I am, it will make a difference in the rest of the world... People want to do and to be better. They need inspiration to change and to try to make a difference. They need a catalyst to inspire faith and to encourage them to take a risk...(once a Mexican-American migrant farm worker) ~

Esau Herrera

~ Be strong and courageous, and do the work. ~

Chronicles 28:20

~ 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

~ 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

~ To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. ~

Bernard Edmonds

~ May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. ~

Unknown

~ We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. ~

St. Francis De Sales

~ A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~

James Callaghan

~ Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative. ~

Alfred Adler

~ Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~

John Luther

~ Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~

Nicholas Murray Butler

~ Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Itís quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnít at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember thatís where you will find success. ~

Thomas J. Watson

~ When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. ~

Unknown

~ Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~

Kurt Goldstein

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