#oura

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#courage

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ↗

— Richard L. Evans

#courage #feel #great #keep #opportunity

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. ↗

— Anne Frank

#courage

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. ↗

— Barack Obama

#courage

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#moral-courage #right #right-and-wrong #courage

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. ↗

— Bob Filner

#change #committed #continue #courage #determination

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#connection #different #discouragement #germ #joint

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#extent #father #i #lesser #lesser extent