#courage

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#courage #majority #minority #test #tolerance

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#before #career #company #cook #discouraged

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#applied #asked #boston #consulting #encouraged

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#came #courage #first #first time #harness

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#down #encouraged #fidel #i #kennedy

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#brings #economic #economic system #encourages #growth

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#american #american government #bad #encourage #goals

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely