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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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Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- 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)
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- 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
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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
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
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Keshavan Nair
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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