#oura

Life is to be entered upon with courage. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#entered #life #upon

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#either #encouraging #getting #guess #had

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

#encouraged #europe #forefront #germany #goal

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#courage #enjoy #i #level #messenger

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#courage #damn #damn fool #desire #fool

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#ago #almost #audience #career #encouraging

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #own #speak #standards #teachers

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#breed #campbell #check #encouragement #got

Courage is found in unlikely places. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#found #places #unlikely