Evergreen Speech (Courage)
Ü Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
~~Aristotle
Ü Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~~Baltasar Gracian
Ü Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
~~Bernadette Devlin
Ü The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~~Charles DuBois
Ü Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
~~Clare Boothe Luce
Ü Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~~Dorothy Thompson
Ü 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
Ü It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
~~Alan Cohen
Ü Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~~Erich Fromm
Ü All serious daring starts from within.
~~Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ü We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
~~Helen Keller
Ü When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
~~Henry David Thoreau
Ü Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
~~James Freeman Clarke:
Ü Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~~John Quincy Adams :
Ü 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
Ü Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
~~Margaret Chase Smith
Ü Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
~~Marian Wright Edelman
Ü If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream, The Trumpet of Conscience
~~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ü 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
Ü History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~~Maya Angelou
Ü The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~~Ralph W. Sockman:
Ü When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ü The best way out is always through.
~~Robert Frost
Ü Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
~~Robert G. Ingersoll
Ü To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
~~Soren Kierkegaard:
Ü Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
~~Susan B. Anthony
Ü 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
Ü Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
~~Winston Churchill
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