"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on courage
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Morley, Christopher on poetry and poets
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

Donne, John on doubt
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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

Thackeray, William M. on despair   

"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character"

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

Eliot, George on despair
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

Massinger, Philip on doubt   

"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease."

Camus, Albert on pity   

"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."

Eliot, T. S. on insanity
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

Carlyle, Thomas on despair
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"It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair."

Kierkegaard, Søren on courage   

"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired."

Strauss, Robert on perseverance
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"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

Twain, Mark on creativity
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"Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage."

Namath, Joe on performance   

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa on love
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"There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living."

Sheehan, George on procrastination
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"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."

Carnegie, Dale on fatigue
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"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."

Benson, Edward Frederic on happiness
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"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

John Paul II on fear
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"There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors."

Morrison, Jim on knowledge
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"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Shinn, George on growth
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"I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process."

Nyad, Diana on possibilities   

"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."

Stone, W. Clement on obstacles
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"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

Clark, Frank A. on direction
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

More, Hannah on obstacles   

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

Bristol, Claude M. on obstacles
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"For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

Howland, Bette on obstacles
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