Courage & Character

• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority, the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. –Ralph W. Stockman
• Faith Hope Love Courage
• Stand for Something
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. –Abraham Lincoln
• Take courage- for it mattereth not if you try and fail, and try and fail again; but it matters much if you try and fail and fail to try again.
• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. –Emerson
• You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now? – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.
• I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do. –Helen Keller
• When a man quietly makes up his mind that there is nothing that he cannot endure, his fears leave him.
• My strength is that of 10,000 because my heart is pure. –Sir Galiha
• The best way out of difficulty is through it.
• Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this, that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying up. -Mary Pickford
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. –Mahatma Ghandi
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but what direction we are moving. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
• This courage…to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. –Euripedes
• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. –David O. McKay
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. –Robert G. Ingersoll
• Mistakes are the portals of discovery. –James Joyce
• No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. –Elbert Hubbard
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. –Abraham Lincoln
• The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. –Abraham Lincoln
• The cultivation of all parts of the moral and intellectual nature is requisite to form the man or woman of healthy and well balanced character. Without sympathy or consideration on others, man were a poor, stunted, sordid, selfish being and without cultivated intelligence the most beautiful woman is little better than a well dressed doll. –Samuel Smiles
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. –Mark Twain
• You have to stay awake to make your dreams come true. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
• It is easy to be brave from a distance.
• He who cannot establish a dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. He who masters himself shall be king.
• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. –Abraham Lincoln
• Noble characters do not alone bear trouble, they use it.
• When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
• Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.
• Courage is grace under pressure. –Ernest Hemingway
• Fall seven times, stand up eight.
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. –Eleanor Roosevelt
• Great minds have purpose. Others have wishes. –Washington Irving
• When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
• Plan ahead…it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
• Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. –Winston Churchill
• Clear your mind of can’t. –Samuel Johnson
• Nurture your thoughts with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic, makes heroes.
• To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. –Anatole France
• If a man does his best, what else is there? -General George S. Patton
• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. –Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Big jobs usually go to the people who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. –Henry David Thoreau
• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. –Peter Marshall
• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old…seek what they sought.
• The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
• As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around. –Oprah Winfrey
• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. –Oprah Winfrey
• Never, never, give up! -Winston Churchill
• Do one thing at a time, with supreme excellence.
• Change your thoughts and you change your world.
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
• Let him that would move the world, first move himself. –Socrates
• If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. –Thomas Edison
• This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. –William Shakespeare
• The loftier your goals, the higher your risk, the greater your glory.
• Adversity introduces a man to himself.
• In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it is the size of the fight in the dog. –Dwight D. Eisenhower
• To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobleness.
• God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. –Elbert Hubbard
• A good example is the best sermon. –Hebert J. Taylor
• The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. –Henrik Ibsen
• Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. –Will Rogers
• The only easy day was yesterday. –SEAL
• Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.