#courage

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. ↗

— David Seabury

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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. ↗

— Patti Smith

#encouragement #i #others #thrived

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now. ↗

— John W. Snow

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Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States. ↗

— John W. Snow

#creating #current #deficit #domestic #encourage

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #blessings #called #depend #destiny

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

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