#courage

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#able #along #comes #confidence #every

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. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#accept #comes #courage #give #important

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#built #character #courageously #grow #honestly

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#courage #crazy #drive #enough #fear

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. ↗

— Jonas Salk

#courage #dreams #imagination #make #reality

Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#call #care #encourage #experience #finger

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#instinct #lost #love #our #protect