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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Browse Quotations about Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Be larger than your task.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Courage follows action.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
Courage is acting in spite of fear.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
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.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
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.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.