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Courage is being scared to death

  Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sidney J. Harris Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. - David T. Wolf Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain No man ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke READ MORE

10 Quotes

John Wayne. Photo: personalliberty.com Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. - John Wayne, Advice on acting Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. - Bob Marley Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. - Seneca One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. - George Eliot Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4 Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

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 whic...