#oura

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life. ↗

— Ben Vereen

#come #dance #day #dedicate #dream

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#artists #been #courage #curiosity #i

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#courage #fear #beauty

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. ↗

— Voltaire

#admiral #country #encourage #from time to time #good

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#also #because #bed #discouraged #everything

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ↗

— Virgil

#stratagem #strife #used #whether #who

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#america #built #determination #fear #hand

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#courage #firm #firm resolve #force #heroes

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ↗