#oura

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#courage #enjoy #i #level #messenger

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#courage #damn #damn fool #desire #fool

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#benefits #celebrating #curtain #distasteful #encouraging

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#boss #encourage #executives #i #make

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. ↗

— Anna Held

#am #bath #cold #courage #early

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. ↗

— Tom Ford

#discouraged #environment #had #i #liberal

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cross #death #hardened #itself #like

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#difficult #going #had #high #high price