Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Thought for Today

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

~~~~~ Chester W. Nimitz

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Thought for Today

"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."

~~~~~ Stanislaus I

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Thought for Today

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

~~~~~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Friday, August 7, 2015

Thought for Today

"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."

~~~~~ Powell Clayton

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Thought for Today

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities – because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

~~~~~ Joseph Chamberlain

Monday, June 1, 2015

Thought for Today

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

~~~~~ Carl von Clausewitz

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Thought for Today

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

~~~~~ Chester W. Nimitz

Friday, February 13, 2015

Thought for Today

"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."

~~~~~ Sarojini Naidu

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Thought for Today

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."

~~~~~ Benjamin Disraeli

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Thought for Today

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

~~~~~ Winston Churchill

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Thought for Today

"When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger."

~~~~~ Hale White

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Thought for Today

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

~~~~~ Eddie Rickenbacker

Friday, May 24, 2013

Thought for Today

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

~~~~~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Thought for Today

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."

~~~~~ James Freeman Clarke

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Thought for Today

"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."

~~~~~ Luther Martin

Friday, March 23, 2012

Thought for Today

"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."

~~~~~ Lord Milner

Friday, February 24, 2012

Thought for Today

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

~~~~~ Chester W. Nimitz

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Thought for Today

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."

~~~~~ David Seabury

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Thought for Today

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."

~~~~~ Irving Wallace