Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
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There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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Courage is the most important virtue because it makes all others possible.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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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.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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The ladder of success must be set upon something solid before you can start to climb.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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And treat those two impostors just the same.
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Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
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Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.
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We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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The wise sceptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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