Black, Claudia
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Lincoln, Abraham
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Stoppard, Tom
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, G. K.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Jung, Carl
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Zen Paradigm
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Drucker, Peter
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Nair, Keshavan
Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."
Mariechild, Diane
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
Nin, Anais
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Curie, Marie
You've got to find the force inside you.
Campbell, Joseph
I need to take an emotional breath, step back and remind myself who's actually in charge of my life.
Knowlton, Judith
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us.
Deng Ming-Dao
The only way to pass any test is to take the test.
Anonymous
If you are not living on the edge, you take up too much room.
Native American saying
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Reese, Betty
We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify our blessings.
Neill, Humphrey B
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar
Keller, Helen
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Anonymous
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Browning, Robert
Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
Anonymous
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
Lao-tzu
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
Devlin, Bernadette
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and courage to stand by his own convictions
Ingersoll, Robert G
When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.
Zwilich, Ellen
It is what we fear that happens to us.
Wilde, Oscar
This the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.
Frankl, Victor
A life making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
Shaw, George Bernard
Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
He who gains victory over other men is strong; but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Stein, Gertrude
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
Zen Saying
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Kopp, Sheldon
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.
Gibran, Kahlil
You haven't failed till you quit trying.
Anonymous
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Bronte, Charlotte
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Keller, Helen
If you see a whole thing- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Le Guin, Ursula
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
William Shedd
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publius Syrus
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Rabindranath Tagore
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
G. K. Chesterton
What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you.
Rabbi Pinhas
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi
"In the hour of adversity be not without hope / For crystal rain falls from black clouds."
Persian Poem
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
Peter Marshall
"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."
Williard Marriott
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
Victor Hugo
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Mark Twain
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
Samuel Butler
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.
Herodotus
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Martial
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
David Searles
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin
The truth of the matter is that you ALWAYS know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Cowards die many times before their death.
William Shakespeare
"To sit quiet and think, is the hardest thing a person can do, for when he does, all the Demons of the universe, show up and try to keep him from the truth. But these Demons must be faced, then slayed, in order to live a life worth living"
R.H. Lascelle
You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Ziggy
If you train hard you'll not only be hard but you'll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Goethe
Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you.
Shakespeare
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer
Thoreau
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Cummings
"What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular."
Unknown
Wisdom is not in words Wisdom is meaning within words
Khalil Gibran
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
Shakespeare
If you build up too many tomorrows....all you end up with are a bunch of empty yesterdays.
Anonymous
One Man with courage is Majority.
Andrew Jackson
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Sir Winston Churchill
"Wisdom begins with wonder."
Socrates
Our greatest glory consists not of never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
