SERVE WHAT YOU LEARNT

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot
supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy


All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney


A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero


Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway


Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill


Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain


Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form
of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton


Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the
world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD


We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop
to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor


The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering
and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing


In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long
time.
Anonymous


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali


You can't test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop


I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson


Determination
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers


Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb


Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before
you.
Denis Waitley


The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan


If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher


A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish
with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer


The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda


If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have
confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter


What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only
when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully
determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell


There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will
succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer


A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage,
the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice
the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi


It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that
built this bridge.
John J. Watson



So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest
principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino


Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race
when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson


Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins


Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are
determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle


An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great
distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller


Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons


Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven.
To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer


Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino


You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with
satisfaction.
George Lorimer


We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal


Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock


Difficulties
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail


The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to
meet them.
Phyllis Bottome


You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning
a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and
overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker


The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to
what?
Sydney J. Harris


Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis


Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank


The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming
to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle


No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the
winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin


If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity,
it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your
head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot
defeat me.
Ann Landers


Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes


The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little
longer.
George Santayana


It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth


Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by
conflict.
William E. Channing


Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is
no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown


Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford


It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase
unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein


To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept
the ones you like.
Mike Gafka


Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland


For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so
much.
Mother Teresa


Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irvin


A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson


Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they
see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them
squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden


The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience
but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb


It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi


Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale


You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover
who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon