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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by John Quincy Adams.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
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If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Adventure is the child of courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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