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Quote Guests Replybullet Posted: 10 March 2009 at 6:31pm
Well, I couldn't find it. It was one by Og Mandino, one of the most amazing inspirational speakers/authors. I love him. But here's another of my favourites
 
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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Quote Olga Replybullet Posted: 13 March 2009 at 4:43am

Seeing terrible things and ignoring them means accepting them

Noone can make you fell inferior without your consent
                                                               Elenor Roosevelt
 
"Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible, make violent revolutions inevitable"                                           John F.Kennedy
 
"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them exvept in the form of bread"                                       Mahatma Gandhi
 
"Gott, gib mir den Mut, Dinge zu verändern, die ich verändern kann, die Geduld, Dinge zu akzeptieren, die ich nicht verändern kann, und die Weisheit, das andere von dem anderen zu unterscheiden"    translating...
"God, give me enough courage to change things I can change, enough patience not to accept things that I can´t change and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other"                ancient German saying, I guess...
 
                                  
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Quote SiobhanMarie Replybullet Posted: 13 March 2009 at 10:50am
Originally posted by Olga

Seeing terrible things and ignoring them means accepting them

                                  


This I agree with terribly! We know it's out there and we can do something, so we need to do it!
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Quote Danielle Replybullet Posted: 13 March 2009 at 6:12pm

YES! Agreed agreed agreed! That remindes me of a quote I saw once. It said: the worst thing a good man can do in a bad time is nothing.

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Quote Jo Thompson Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2009 at 10:50am
I saw this on  a poster the other day:
The expert in anything was once a beginner
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Quote SiobhanMarie Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2009 at 7:37pm
Very true! That helps to ground your thoughts, doesn't it?

I also like:

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  ~Ambrose Redmoon
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Quote greenscene Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2009 at 10:53pm
I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela
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Quote SiobhanMarie Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2009 at 11:37pm
I think that these are fantastic quotes about courage, because in times of strife, courage is what can change the future. Does anyone else have any more about courage? It's nice to read.
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Quote Danielle Replybullet Posted: 23 March 2009 at 7:18am
I like that one, greenscene! I have one about courage...
 
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracian
 
But I'm not 100% sure that I understand what it means. Anyone care to shed some light on it for me?
 
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Quote SiobhanMarie Replybullet Posted: 23 March 2009 at 11:55am
Perhaps it has a meaning about wisdom is knowledge, but without having courage in acting out your knowledge you cannot succeed? Something like that?
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Quote Jo Thompson Replybullet Posted: 23 March 2009 at 4:39pm
maybe its just that if you dont have courage to speak out your wisdom stays useless to everyone else as it sits in your head. Kinda what you said Siobhan Marie!
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Quote SiobhanMarie Replybullet Posted: 26 March 2009 at 11:15am
I think to an extent it would also have consideration for individual interpretation - what you think it means to you as well.
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