#oura

Courage is found in unlikely places. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#found #places #unlikely

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#courage #differently #discover #especially #great

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#die #each #eating #encouraged #hours

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#courage #decision #free #risk #rooted

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

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#ago #almost #audience #career #encouraging

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #own #speak #standards #teachers

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea