Browsing Quotes With Tag: courage (23)
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Speaker: Mother TheresaPosted: 23 Apr 2011 at 12:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The ancient Spartans left us a vision that is a more precise analogy than Massada. Outnumbered by the Persians, according to legend, the Spartans had to hold the pass at Thermopylae. After failing to take the pass, the Persians sent an emissary to the Spartans, who asked them to surrender and threatened them by saying that the Persians had so many archers they could “darken the sky with their arrows.” The Spartans replied: “So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.” We, too, may need to hold the pass in the shade of vexing circumstances; and we, too, need to be undaunted, but that is easier to do, if we carefully cultivate a realistic sense of destiny.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The aloneness of the atonement in its final hours symbolized how we must, at times, do what needs to be done, even if no mortal understands or appreciates what is being done. In fact, the atonement with its awful arithmetic (the billions who would benefit from the exquisite agony of Christ as he somehow bore thousands of sins for each of us) was the last appreciated but most beneficial act in human history!
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How wet some people must have been before Noah’s ark suddenly seemed the only sane act in an insane, bewildering situation!
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 25 Jun 2010 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what is termed bravery is simply men being too obstinate, or too dumb, to understand their own mortality
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: BrainyquotePosted: 02 May 2009 at 7:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Tears are weakness being drained from your soul.”
Speaker: Seargent DillonSource: Chrystal's TI in Basic TrainingPosted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that hey do not remain the way they are.
Speaker: AugustinePosted: 25 Sep 2008 at 12:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.
Speaker: Robert BrowningSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ignore an insult is the true test of courage.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently.
…Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!