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August 3, 2016 by kevinstilley

Audacity and Boldness – select quotes

De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace! [Audacity, audacity again, and audacity always.]
~ Georges Danton, to the French Legislative Assembly on September 2, 1792

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
~ Vaclav Havel, The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
~ Nicholi Machiavelli, in Discourses

In audacity and obstinacy will be found safety.
~ Napoleon I, in Maxims of War

Desperate affairs, require desperate remedies
~ Horatio Nelson

The gods favour the bold.
~ Ovid, in Metamorphoses, x

Bold decisions give the best promise of success.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in Rules of Desert Warfare

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene

Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ William Shakespeare, in Cymbeline

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
~ Tacitus, in Histories

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May 31, 2014 by kevinstilley

Courage & Bravery – select quotes

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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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ General Omar Bradley

It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
~ Sir Thomas Browne, in Religio Medici, section xliv

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ George Chapin

A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
~ Lord Chesterfield

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
~ Confucius

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is…knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
~ Atticus Finch, a character in Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon

Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
~ The Hitopadesa

One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson

Never ask the gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
~ Menander

Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~ George S. Patton

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~ Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess, of courage.
~ Plutarch

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
~ Proverbs 28:1

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~ Lauren Raffo

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~ William T. Sherman

Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
~ Charles Swindoll

Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ Terence, in Phormio

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Four Georges

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain

Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged by the size of the task, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
~ Bible, 1 Chronicles 28:20

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May 27, 2014 by kevinstilley

Character – select quotes

characterTo enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
~ Aristotle

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
~ Paul “Bear” Bryant

A crisis is not only character building; it is character revealing.
~ Rick Casterline

Every one is the son of his own works.
~ Miguel de Cervantes

Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing…
~ George Eliot

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don’t turn up at all.
~ Sam Ewing

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
~ Billy Graham

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions;
We sow our actions, and we reap our habits;
we sow our habits, and we reap our characters;
we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
~ Charles Albert Hall

A man’s character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus

The hell to be endured hereafter . . . is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be none. The drunken Rip van Winkle in Jefferson’s play excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, ‘I won’t count this time!’ Well, we may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-ends and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering it, and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.”
~ William James, in Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals, page 77

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller

To succeed is nothing, it is an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different, it is character.
~ Marie Leneru

Good character is like a rubber ball – Thrown down hard – it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball – Thrown for gain – shattered and cracked.
~ A. L. Linall, Jr

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
~ Andre Maurois

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
~ John Milton

Character is a perfectly educated will.
~ Novalis

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
~ Thomas Paine

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
~ Plutarch

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
~ Jean Paul Richter

A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood.
~ The Talmud

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October 23, 2012 by kevinstilley

Fear – select quotes

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
~ James Allen

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker

There lives in each of us a hero, awaiting a call to action.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester

Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks

Let me assert my firm belief, that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The terror we fear is often empty, but nevertheless it causes real misery.
~ Johann Schiller, Piccolomini, act 5

The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3

Do the thing you fear, and fear will die.
~ Unknown

Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown

The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
~ The Bible, Joshua 1:9

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October 14, 2012 by kevinstilley

Cowardice – select quotes

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
~ George Chapin

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
~ Confucius

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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Perseverence / Persistence / Determination – select quotes

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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
~ Mary Kay Ash

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~ John Burroughs

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie

A champion is one who gets up even when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsey

The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.
~ Walt Disney

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

We will either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
~ Elbert Hubbard

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

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
~ Paul J. Meyer

Trying times are not the times to stop trying.
~ Ray Owen

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
~ J.C. Penney

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~ Norwegian Proverb

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~ Babe Ruth

Perseverance is more efficacious than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they stand together, yield themselves us when taken little by little.
~ Sertorius, in Plutarch’s Lives

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from Salt-Cellars

Anyone can CARRY HIS BURDEN
however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone, can DO HIS WORK,
however hard, one day.
Anyone can live SWEETLY, PATIENTLY, LOVINGLY,
until the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really is.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
— Lee Trevino

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff

Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
~ Bible, Hebrews 10:36

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November 11, 2008 by kevinstilley

A Creed For Everyone

SILENCE when your words would hurt.
PATIENCE when your neighbor’s curt.
DEAFNESS when the scandal flows.
THOUGHTFULNESS for other’s woes.
PROMPTNESS when stern duty calls.
COURAGE when misfortune falls.

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Happiness – Select Quotes

Thomas Jefferson’s Decalogue

You Will Never Be Sorry

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March 12, 2008 by kevinstilley

Wrestling With Adversity

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December 1, 2007 by kevinstilley

Be Courageous

“So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord!” Psalm 31:24 NLT

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