
Your fear does not cancel my courage.
- Topic: Commitment, Courage, Decision, Fear, Society
- Location: Lake Mead, Redstone
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Irrevocable commitments that offer loopholes, not bail-out provisions, and no parachute clauses will extract incredible productivity and performance.
It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
