‘I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.’
Helen Keller
‘Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.’
Baltasar Gracian
‘Moral excellence about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.’
Aristotle
‘Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.’
Bernadette Devlin
‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’
Alan Cohen
‘The important thing to this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.’
Charles Dubois
‘Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.’
Clare Booth Luce
‘Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.’
Dorothy Thompson
‘All serious daring starts from within.’
Harriet Beecher Stowe
‘You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
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