“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 154 of 1106
“X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do”
“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.”
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
“Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.”
“We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.”
“It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy”
“People have the power to redeem the work of fools.”
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.”
“This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.”
“Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters”
“The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.”
“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.”
“You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.”
“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”
“They don't want you to win.”
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”