#oura

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. ↗

— Ralph Regula

#go #individuals #into #military #program

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

Courage is action, not talk. ↗

— Jeff Rich

#courage #talk

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

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#because #been #courage #deal #energy

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