"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."

"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."

"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?"

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."