Wednesday, December 25, 2024

 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King Jr

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’ George Bernard Shaw

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. John Lennon

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

Build a dream and the dream will build you. Robert H. Schuller

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.s Lewis


 Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky

Fear ends where faith begins.--Giorgio A. Dano

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.--Michael Pritchard

Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. ... I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.--Smith Wigglesworth

Fearlessness is the first requisite of the spiritual life.--Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom lies in being bold.--Robert Frost

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.--D. H. Lawrence

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll


 Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim


 Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt

All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003)

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.--James Ramesy Ullman

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.--Madeleine Albright 


 Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” —Thomas J. Watson

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” —Unknown

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” —Plutarch

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” —Eugene Kennedy


 In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda


 You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale

“You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” —Zig Ziglar

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who ind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Suess

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” —Mark Twain

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Abraham Lincoln

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” —Elvis Presley

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney”


 I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt


 Benjamin Franklin: "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

Billy Graham: "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

Bruce Lee: "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

Catherine the Great: "I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."

Charles Lindbergh: "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

Charlie Chaplin: "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

Chester W Nimitz: "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

Christopher Morley: "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Confucius: "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

Dale Carnegie: "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Daniel J Boorstin: "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

David Ben-Gurion: "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

David Letterman: "There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior."

Dean Koontz: "Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."

Earl Nightingale: "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

Eleanor Roosevelt: "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

EM Forster: "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

Erich Fromm: "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Erma Bombeck: "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

EW Hornung: "Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost."

Giacomo Casanova: "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."

Gilbert K Chesterton: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

Gilbert K Chesterton: "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."


 Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.--Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces--Judith Viorst

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.--Amos Bronson Alcott

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."--Elbert Hubbard (The Notebook)

 Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity–hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory–because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” -J.I. Packer

Without Christ there is no hope.” -Charles Sturgeon

Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.” -John Newton

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt


 It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”― E.E. Cummings Quotes On Courage

2) “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”― Coco Chanel Quotes On Courage

3) “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”― Winston S. Churchill Quotes On Courage

 Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.--Ann Landers

Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are.--John M. Gardener

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.--Napoleon Hill