Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage."

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"A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path."

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"It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?"

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"If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat."

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"Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage."

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"Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites."

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"Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!"

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"Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it."

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"No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance."

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"Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right."

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"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

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"One who lacks courage to start has already finished"

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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."

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"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood."

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"Private bravery is often the price of personal victory."

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"What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away."

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"You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom."

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"We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade."

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"Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet."

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"The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men."

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"Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him."

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"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

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"The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way."

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"The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again."

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"One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc."

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"I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now."

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"Buying on trust is the way to pay double."

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"In God we trust; all others must pay cash."

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"Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us."

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"Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize."

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"He who throws dirt always loses ground."

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"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him."

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"Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat"

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"It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us."

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"It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism."

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"Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at."

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"The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route."

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"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it."

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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."

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