10 quotes for today - 17 January 2019

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

- Joy Page

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become.

- Steve Jobs

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

- C. S. Lewis

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

- John Wayne

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- John Quincy Adams

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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. - Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...

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