Learn Through Quotations

“Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

“More value of a man depends upon his courage; his verstality depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of homour.”

“It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ”

“Courage, determination, pride... that's what little girls are made of.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“Live dangerously and you live right.”

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.”

“If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.”

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail, dare to succeed.”