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"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
— David Lloyd George

tags: goal, step, try
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"God gave me my talent and I was afraid of facing him one day if I didn't use it.
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— Jack Sorenson

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"The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
42 people liked it

"The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid."
— Confucius

5 people liked it

"I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."
— Antisthenes Pinto

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"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

tags: bravery, courage, fear
62 people liked it

"Sometimes our only way is jumping
Hope you're not afraid of heights"
— Gavin DeGraw

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
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"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
— Maria Montessori

tags: imagination
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"I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand."
— Catherine Madsen

tags: be, courage, oneself, to
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"Because of a great love, one is courageous."
— Laozi

tags: love
24 people liked it

"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."
— Aristotle

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"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: courage
179 people liked it

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
— Bernard Edmond

tags: courage, dream, inspirational, strength, succeed
160 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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"To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light."
— Coventry Patmore

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"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
191 people liked it

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
— ~Mary Anne Radmacher

tags: insprational
18 people liked it

"The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well."
— Chögyam Trungpa

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"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

tags: cider, house, irving, living, rules, sad, wtf
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"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
— Oscar Wilde

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"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."
— Robert R. McCammon (Boy's Life)

tags: africa, death, elephants
17 people liked it

"I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life."
— Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimisim
17 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Edward Abbey

28 people liked it

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories)

49 people liked it

""In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.""
— André Maurois

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"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

tags: truth
162 people liked it

"I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close."
— Mark Andrus

tags: inspirational
66 people liked it

"I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself."
— Sri Chinmoy

tags: happiness
74 people liked it

"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
— Euripides

31 people liked it

"Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason..."
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Venus in Furs)

14 people liked it

"He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning."
— Patricia O'Brien (The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton)

6 people liked it

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