"Quotes To Inspire Courage"
"Start each day with a grateful heart."
Author Unknown
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and then when you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
Victor Hugo
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
Keshavan Nair
"Every breath of mine is His divine gift, every pleasant morning His gentle reminder of His abundant love, The humble family-surrounding where I was born & raised was His great gift; so is the happy family he blessed me to raise now: In this sea of life He protects me so that I don't drown when the might tides come up. Like the mother-hen that secures her chicks, He keeps me safe from all adversities. So lowly, that I am not worthy to look up to His Heavenly abode to praise him; but as I close my eyes and offer my devotion and my eyes become moist, I can feel His wonderful touch... Blessed be His Holy name for ever, for ever, for ever... "
Copyright © 2003 CV Varghese --- India
"When you are faced with one of your deepest fears, embrace it, for it is your chance to overcome it."
Copyright © 2003 Heather Christiansen --- Iowa
"I also teach them to be fearless. I tell them, nothing is permanent with you. What is permanent with you is your attitude to the moment. That is what is within your control, and that's the only permanent thing at the moment I can see."
Kiran Bedi --- Submitted by Anantha G. --- A.P, India
Inspiration for me.
"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear all three-all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
Edward Everett Hale
"Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women."
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Dreaming God's dreams accomplishes greatness out of nothingness. What are your dreams today?"
Copyright © 2003 Ogba Eke --- Lagos, Nigeria
This inspiration came to me after looking at the entire universe God created out of nothing but chaos and emptiness, which shows that we too can make things happen only if we believe.
"God loves you whether you like it or not."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Megan M., Age 18 --- Kansas
"I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become."
Ezra Taft Benson
"No smile is more beautiful than the one that struggles through tears."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Caroline
"Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The purpose of life is to live it, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."
Frederick Buechner
"Should you shield the canyon from the windstorms you would never see the beauty of their carvings."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."
Andre Norton
"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
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
Kahlil Gibran
"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."
C.S. Lewis
"Show me the individual who cherishes their friends and relatives, loves their spouse and children, honors their parents and worships their god, and I will show you a success in every sense of the word."
Copyright © 2003 Joseph P.Martino
"The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."
Clarence Blasier
"What if we truly believed there is a God - a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?"
Marianne Williamson
"Love plunges through all barricades and restraints and shines an eternal light that will pilot us through the gloomy shadows that may cast over us tomorrow."
Copyright © 2002 Nichole Troe
"I never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. When he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."
Preston Bradley
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
Rabindranath Tagore