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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.
-- Norman Macleod
Stand up to
crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even
surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an
opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter
what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself.
No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in
your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture
screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what
you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must
keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises,
with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not
fall through the floor. You will be able to support
yourself.
-- Maxwell Maltz
American Plastic Surgeon,
Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
To do anything
truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and
scramble through as well as I can.
-- Og Mandino
1923-1996, American
Motivational Author, Speaker
Be larger than
your task.
-- Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author,
Founder of Success Magazine
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This is the
test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after
you have lost everything outside of yourself?
-- Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author,
Founder of Success Magazine
The acorn
becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment
is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the
basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in
creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human
only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to
them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of
decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require
courage.
-- Rollo May
American Psychologist
Never ask the
Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that
endureth long.
-- Menander of Athens
BC 342-291, Greek Dramatic
Poet
Though the
practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its
theoretic standard than practice generally falls below
theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the
moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a
concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and
distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a
moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and
institutions; so much so as to have been completely
frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely
inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for
the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and
feelings of all subsequent times.
-- John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British
Philosopher, Economist
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