"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

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"Never do what the devil provokes you to do."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Courage, Devil, Provocation, Resistance, Faith

"If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Courage, Life, Determination, Conquer, Challenge

"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Sharks, Water, Walk, Think

"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Courage, Fear, Overcome, Faith, Strength

"Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Courage, Bravery, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Stepping out and stepping up can be an intimidating experience, especially in social situations where the outcomes are unpredictable and uncertain. Have you ever been reluctant to . . . Say "no?" Request help? Ask for a raise? Stand up to a bully? Talk about tough topics? Confront a friend or spouse? Speak up and share your opinion? Begin a conversation with a stranger? Deliver a presentation or speak in public? Talk about the "white elephant in the room? Befriend people who are much different than you? Make sales calls because you don't want to be rejected? Approach a new group of people at a networking event? Go to an event by yourself where you did not know anyone?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Courage, Inspirational, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Courage, Silence, Leadership, Action

"The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Courage, Life, Truth, Fear

"Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Courage, Death, Praise, Faith

"You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Courage, Fear, Bravery, Pain, Cure

Explore more quotes by Winston Churchill

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

Courage

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Wisdom

"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."

Life

"Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others."

Character

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Philosophy

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."

Politics

"You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

Youth

"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Motivation

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."

Mindset

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

Learning