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John M. Wilson, fully John Moulder Wilson

Let's learn and label properly Disappointment and Discouragement for what they are - two completely different states of mind. Disappointment can be a spur to improvement that will contribute to success. But Discouragement is a mortal enemy that destroys courage and robs one of the will to fight. It is not circumstance that causes Discouragement, but one's own reaction to that circumstance. Everyone must meet Disappointment, many times; it is simply a part of life. When it is met, we may resign ourselves to Discouragement and failure. Or we may recognize each Disappointment as an asset by which we can profit, and take new strength from a lesson learned. The choice is ours, each time, to make.

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Henry Theodore Tuckerman

There is strength of quiet endurance as significant courage as the most daring fears of prowess.

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of ages. In this flowing stream, then on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows, which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

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Hugh Walpole, fully Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

It isn't life that matters; it's the courage you bring to it.

Character | Courage | Life | Life |

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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Whatever satisfies souls is true; prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls, itself only finally satisfies the soul, the soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.

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Leonard M. Zunin

I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear... Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks.

Absence | Character | Courage | Fear |

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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

The melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of money making with all their scorching days and icy nights... is the great fraud upon modern civilization.

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Paul Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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Owen D. Young

There is a single reason why 99 out of 100 average business men never become leaders. That is their unwillingness to pay the price of responsibility. By the price of responsibility I mean hard driving, continual work... the courage to make decisions, to stand the gaff... the scourging honesty of never fooling yourself about yourself... And the grooves that lead to the heights are not made between nine and five. They are burned in by the midnight oil.

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John Austin

The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.

Existence | Law | Merit | Wisdom |

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George H. Bender

There is no one who cannot find a place for himself in our kind of world. Each of us has some unique capacity waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence - for himself alone.

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Honoré de Balzac

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had my periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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William Blackstone, fully Sir William Blackstone

The suicide is guilt of a double offence; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the Almighty... the other temporal, against the king.

Guilt | Suicide | Wisdom |

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Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland

For all his learning or sophistication, man is still instinctively reaching toward that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

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Catherine Bowen, née Catherine Shober Drinker

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

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Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

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Noah Weinberg, fully Rabbi Yisrael Noah Weinberg

Killing time is suicide on the installment plan.

Plan | Suicide | Time | Wisdom |

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