🔥 Courage

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cannot say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

— Harriet Tubman

#conductor #railroad #passengers

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

#wings #crawling #born

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you do not have the strength.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strength #going-on #exhaustion

“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”

— Cleanthes

#courage #fate #willingness

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”

— Knute Rockne

#weaknesses #strong-points #building

“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”

— Confucius

#courage #integrity #action

“Fortune favors the brave, and abandons the cowardly.”

— Pliny the Elder

#courage #fortune #bravery

“In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.”

— Tony Robbins

#inspiration #desperation #life

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

#virtues #important #consistency

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#course #wrong #decision

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

— Confucius

#right #cowardice #action

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#letting-go #power #defending

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

— Pericles

#freedom #possession #defending

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with.”

— Rebecca Solnit

#hope #axe #doors

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

— Phil Jackson

#team #individual #strength

“It is not what you tell your players that counts. It is what they hear.”

— Red Auerbach

#telling #hearing #communication

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

#love #strength #giving

“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”

— George Sewell

#courage #fear #conscience

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

#nobility #superior #former-self

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

#deceit #truth #revolutionary

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

— Unknown

#courage #trials #growth

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

— John Lennon

#dream #together #reality

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

#success #morning #wanting

“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

— Epictetus

#philosophy #embodiment #action

“Do not look at the scoreboard. Focus on the process.”

— Nick Saban

#process #scoreboard #focus

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Unknown

#courage #strength #endurance

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

#resistance #mastery #absence

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#power #fear #corruption

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#fear #itself #only

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

— Demosthenes

#opportunities #small #enterprises

“I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”

— Serena Williams

#setbacks #growth #victories

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.”

— Martin Niemoller

#speaking-out #silence #complicity

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes

#dreams #holding #bird

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”

— J.K. Rowling

#failing #caution #living

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

— Unknown

#courage #impact #hope

“I will find a way or make one.”

— Hannibal

#way #finding #making

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

#courage #hope #perseverance

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#change #step #enduring

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

#freedom #rebellion #existence

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is acting despite the fear.”

— Simon Sinek

#absence #acting #despite

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise.”

— Zig Ziglar

#fear #meanings #rising

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path.”

— Ryan Holiday

#obstacle #path #becoming

“Believe you can and you are halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#belief #halfway #there

“Necessity does the work of courage.”

— George Eliot

#courage #necessity #strength

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu

#neutrality #injustice #oppressor

“I have learned over the years that when one mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

— Rosa Parks

#determination #mind #fear

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

— Plato

#conquest #self #noblest

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

— Sojourner Truth

#truth #power #prevailing

“I have learned you are never too small to make a difference.”

— Greta Thunberg

#small #difference #learning

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

#courage #dignity #soul

“Today is a good day to fight, today is a good day to die.”

— Crazy Horse

#fighting #today #acceptance

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

#courage #attempt #life

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

— James Baldwin

#doing #cannot #interrupting

“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #purpose #direction

“I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that will not work.”

— Thomas Edison

#failure #ways #persistence

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

— Amelia Earhart

#decision #action #tenacity

“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

#courage #freedom #happiness

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask.”

— Banksy

#mask #speaking #listening

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

— Unknown

#courage #opposition #greatness

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

— Epicurus

#courage #difficulty #glory

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”

— William Wallace

#living #dying #meaning

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”

— John F. Kennedy

#life #dramatic #triumph

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

— Edmund Hillary

#mountain #conquering #self

“Discipline equals freedom.”

— Jocko Willink

#discipline #freedom #equals

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

— Warren Buffett

#risk #knowing #doing

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

— Abraham Maslow

#growth #safety #choosing

“I trained four years to run nine seconds and people give up when they do not see results in two months.”

— Usain Bolt

#training #results #patience

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it is the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#fight #size #determination

“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #done #response

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

— Frederick Douglass

#power #demand #conceding

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #triumph #conquering

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

— Vaclav Havel

#hope #conviction #sense

“We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.”

— Oscar Romero

#liberation #something #well

“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”

— Jean Paul Richter

#courage #danger #awareness

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”

— Plutarch

#courage #resolve #justice

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

#light #shining #permission

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca the Younger

#courage #difficulty #strength

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

— Sun Tzu

#victory #preparation #warriors

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

— Parker Palmer

#listening #life #identity

“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”

— Samuel Johnson

#courage #risk #happiness

“It is the little things citizens do. That is what will make the difference.”

— Wangari Maathai

#little-things #citizens #difference

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”

— John Lewis

#right #fair #speaking-up

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

— Malala Yousafzai

#voice #silence #power

“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”

— Bob Proctor

#faith #fear #believing

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#arena #critic #credit

“The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

#happiness #freedom #secret

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#advantage #word #self-respect

“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”

— Virgil

#courage #strategy #victory

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

#courage #perseverance #daily life

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

#action #inaction #breeding

“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”

— Brene Brown

#vulnerability #walking #path

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”

— Pema Chodron

#fear #truth #natural

“The will to succeed is important, but what is more important is the will to prepare.”

— Bobby Knight

#succeeding #preparing #will

“When they go low, we go high.”

— Michelle Obama

#low #high #response

“Real courage is when you know you are licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee

#licked #beginning #seeing-through

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”

— Sitting Bull

#unity #children #future

“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”

— Carol Dweck

#view #adopting #leading

“I will fight no more forever.”

— Chief Joseph

#peace #surrender #dignity

“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#fearlessness #joy #freedom

“What you resist persists. What you befriend you transcend.”

— Robin Sharma

#resistance #befriending #transcendence

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#morality #society #children

“Do not fear death. Fear the unlived life.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

#death #unlived #fear

“Champions behave like champions before they are champions.”

— Bill Walsh

#champions #behavior #before

“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”

— Joan of Arc

#born #purpose #fearless

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

— Jack Kornfield

#living #loving #letting-go

“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”

— Rumi

#comfort #safety #living

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

— Seneca

#courage #difficulty #daring

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

#journey #miles #step

“Come and take them.”

— Leonidas

#defiance #brevity #resistance

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#strength #confidence #facing

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

#struggle #progress #necessity

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#path #trail #leading

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor Frankl

#change #situation #challenge

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #life #growth

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”

— Thucydides

#vision #danger #glory

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

— Buddha

#conquering #self #battles

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

— Ambrose Redmoon

#courage #fear #priorities

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

— Alexander the Great

#impossible #trying #will

“Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Fierce as fire. Immovable as the mountain.”

— Takeda Shingen

#swift #quiet #fierce

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”

— LeBron James

#criticism #strong #liking

“The thing about the struggle is that it is not a struggle for anything in particular. It is a struggle to be.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

#struggle #being #existence

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

— Unknown

#courage #resilience #inner strength

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”

— David Goggins

#comfort #danger #potential

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Unknown

#courage #resilience #inner strength

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #failure #fear

“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”

— Tecumseh

#morning #thanks #living

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

— Baltasar Gracián

#courage #wisdom #action

“I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.”

— Geronimo

#fighting #surrender #regret

“Everything negative, pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

#negative #pressure #rising

“The only way to be remarkable is to do something worth remarking about.”

— Seth Godin

#remarkable #doing #worth

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

#suffering #overcoming #world

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

#simple #idea #seriously

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#silence #evil #facing

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

— Walt Disney

#dreams #pursuit #courage

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

#plan #wild #precious

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.”

— Buddha

#stream #rock #persistence

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”

— Omar Bradley

#bravery #performing #scared

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

— Henry Ford

#obstacles #goal #focus

“Fortune favours the brave.”

— Virgil

#courage #fortune #bravery

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

— Harry S. Truman

#accomplishment #credit #caring

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

#hardships #ordinary #extraordinary

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

#death #risk #alive

“When I am in the zone, there is no fear.”

— Alex Honnold

#zone #fear #flow

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#strength #will #physical

“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”

— Friedrich Schiller

#courage #daring #hope

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

— Wayne Dyer

#against #for #empowerment

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor.”

— Nikola Tesla

#thrill #heart #inventor

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

— Mark Manson

#positive #negative #acceptance

“Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor.”

— Khalil Gibran

#death #fear #honor

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

#love #power #peace

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

#prayer #strength #endurance

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

#respond #call #spirit

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

— John Wooden

#best #turning-out #making

“A man who never fails is a man who never does anything.”

— Oda Nobunaga

#failing #doing #never

“An enlightened ruler does not worry about people not knowing him; he worries about not knowing people.”

— Zhuge Liang

#ruler #knowing #people

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

— Dorothy Day

#hopelessness #work #rights

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #power #character

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.”

— Richard Branson

#opportunity #saying-yes #learning

“We will either find a way, or make one.”

— Hannibal Barca

#way #making #determination

“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”

— Immanuel Kant

#courage #thinking #independence

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

#mistakes #trying #new

“One of the criticisms I have faced over the years is that I am not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow I am too empathetic. I wholly reject those criticisms.”

— Jacinda Ardern

#empathy #assertiveness #rejection

“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”

— Vince Lombardi

#knocked-down #getting-up #times

“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #purpose #direction

“I knew that if I failed I would not regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

— Jeff Bezos

#regret #failing #trying

“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”

— David Whyte

#exhaustion #wholeheartedness #antidote

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#courage #failure #trying

“It is not the will to win that matters. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that matters.”

— Bear Bryant

#preparation #winning #will

“The will to survive is the most powerful force on the planet.”

— Les Stroud

#survival #will #powerful

“Courage is the political virtue par excellence.”

— Hannah Arendt

#political #virtue #excellence

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

— Reinhold Messner

#mountains #fair #dangerous

“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I am the first Simone Biles.”

— Simone Biles

#first #identity #originality

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”

— Brene Brown

#vulnerability #showing-up #control

“The power plant does not have energy, it generates energy. Similarly, motivation is not something you have, it is something you generate.”

— Brendon Burchard

#energy #generating #motivation

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

#genius #declaring #confidence

“If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, or unruly, you are on the right track.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#defiant #unruly #right-track

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

— John Steinbeck

#stories #readers #versions

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#prayer #sheltered #fearless

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#leadership #wanting #art

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

— Winston Churchill

#speaking #listening #standing

“If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.”

— Naval Ravikant

#working #life #day

“Who is the brave man — he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a word. The brave man is he who looks fear in the face and overcomes it.”

— Nachman of Breslov

#courage #fear #overcoming

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

#adventure #daring #nothing

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

#worst #more #humanity

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

#daring #difficulty #causation

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

#broken #strong #places

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

#glory #falling #rising

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

— Nelson Mandela

#impossible #done #seeming

“We are all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

#walking #home #companionship

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

— Joseph Campbell

#cave #fear #treasure

“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights.”

— Liu Xiaobo

#expression #freedom #rights

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

— Jack Canfield

#fear #doing #anyway

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.”

— Carl Jung

#vision #heart #clarity

“I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.”

— Malala Yousafzai

#story #unique #many

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

— Epictetus

#circumstances #making #revealing

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

— Viktor Frankl

#freedom #attitude #choice

“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”

— Les Brown

#starting #greatness #beginning

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”

— Unknown

#courage #progress #patience

“With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”

— Dalai Lama

#potential #confidence #world

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#prison #fear #freedom

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

#courage #risk #accomplishment

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

#courage #fear #bravery

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

— Khalil Gibran

#life #love #blossoms

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

— Rosa Parks

#model #living #others

“I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.”

— Tom Brady

#challenges #best #happening

“Survival can be summed up in three words: never give up.”

— Bear Grylls

#survival #never #giving-up

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#daily #scares #doing

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

— Jackie Robinson

#impact #lives #importance

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies.”

— Aristotle

#desires #conquering #bravery

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

— Jim Rohn

#risk #unusual #ordinary

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

— Julius Caesar

#experience #teacher #all

“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”

— Ray Dalio

#pain #reflection #progress

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

— Harriet Tubman

#freedom #awareness #slavery

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#impediment #action #way

“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#faith #step #staircase

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Unknown

#courage #difficulty #opportunity

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

— Stephen Covey

#strength #differences #similarities

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Alexander the Great

#lions #sheep #leadership

“I have taken England with both hands.”

— William the Conqueror

#taking #hands #both

“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

#love #hate #indifference

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#challenge #measure #standing

“You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.”

— Cyrus the Great

#obedience #man #learning

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

— John A. Shedd

#courage #risk #purpose

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

— Erich Fromm

#creativity #certainties #letting-go

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ignore #laugh #fight

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

— James Clear

#goals #systems #falling

“There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.”

— Roger Federer

#hard-work #embracing #way

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

#improving #world #starting

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

— Unknown

#courage #resilience #perseverance

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cliffs #wings #jumping

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— Socrates

#kindness #battle #fighting

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

#courage #fear #mastery

“Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”

— King David

#courage #faith #hope

“Every one of us is a potential activist. Every act of speaking out is an act of courage.”

— Ai Weiwei

#activist #speaking-out #potential

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.”

— Jordan Peterson

#standing #responsibility #eyes

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”

— George S. Patton

#lead #follow #way

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#woods #deliberately #living

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.”

— Rollo May

#conformity #cowardice #society

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

#action #confidence #inaction

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

— Pericles

#legacy #lives #monuments

“What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”

— Dean Smith

#mistake #recognize #learn

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

— Billie Jean King

#champions #playing #right

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, but through every human heart.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#good #evil #heart

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

#children #life #longing

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

— Plato

#knowing #fear #wisdom

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish.”

— Rigoberta Menchu

#peace #flourishing #environment

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#intelligent #demanding #resourceful

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

#understanding #fear #knowledge

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

#living #act #courage

“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

#universe #wanting #conspiring

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

— Angela Duckworth

#enthusiasm #endurance #rare

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

— Plato

#dead #war #end

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#antifragile #resilience #better

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.”

— Toni Morrison

#flying #giving-up #weight

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

— Rumi

#ruin #hope #treasure

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

— Aristotle

#fears #overcoming #freedom

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

#death #loss #trap

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

— Socrates

#finding #thinking #self

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#courage #action #wisdom

“I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

#failure #success #repeated

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

— Aristotle

#first #guarantees #qualities

“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”

— Louise Hay

#right #place #time

“I warn you against shedding blood. Trust not in that, for spilt blood never sleeps.”

— Saladin

#blood #warning #trust

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

#trust #future #unknown

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”

— Mark Twain

#disappointment #doing #twenty-years

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#mind #power #events

“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#courage #honor #struggle

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

— Aristotle

#courage #virtue #character

“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”

— Oprah Winfrey

#fear #power #truth

“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”

— Peter Thiel

#thinking #courage #supply

“Failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

#failure #impossible #determination

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

#difficulties #mind #strengthening

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#boats #current #past

“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.”

— Vaclav Havel

#truth #love #prevailing

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#patience #strong #understanding

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”

— Chester Nimitz

#giving-up #right #hopeless

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

#suffering #souls #scars

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

#years #questions #answers

“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that is where it is at.”

— Jesse Owens

#battles #invisible #inside

“A free man dies once. A slave dies a thousand deaths.”

— Spartacus

#freedom #slavery #death

“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”

— Adam Grant

#originality #default #exploring

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius

#mountain #stones #small

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

#letting-go #past #finding

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#courage #defeat #resilience

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

#success #failure #continuing

“Do not be ashamed to be a human being; be proud. Inside you one vault after another opens endlessly.”

— Wendell Berry

#human #proud #vaults

“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

#war #victory #substitute

“Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

#alive #world #needs

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