If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Lists have always implied social order.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Life is to entered upon with courage.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.