“While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 242 of 1106
“How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.”
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.”
“The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.”
“I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.”
“Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”
“My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights”
“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.”
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
“When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
“We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.”
“It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.”
“You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.”
“Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.”
“Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.”
“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”
“Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.”
“There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.”
“Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.”
“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.”