Rocket Scientist

In honor of venturing out into the world with yet another blog when I’m not even wildly popular with this one, I’m picking out quotes that have to do with bravery and the like.  Wish me luck!

Boldness is a child of ignorance.
                  –Sir Francis Bacon

Every successful person has had failures, but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
                          –Ashleigh Brilliant

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
                         –James A Garfield

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
                      –Baltasar Gracián

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
                          –Robert Green Ingersol

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
                      –Jean Kerr

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
                 –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
                –Gen. George Patton

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
                  –Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
                 –Mark Twain

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
                   –Oscar Wilde

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
                            – T. Boone Pickens

Courage… is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
                           – Harper Lee

Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
                     – David Lloyd George

Don’t dare to be different, dare to be yourself — if that doesn’t make you different then something is wrong.
                 – Laura Baker

Have the courage to say no.
Have the courage to face the truth.
Do the right thing because it is right.
These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
                         – W. Clement Stone

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
                              – Vaclav Havel

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

                                                -Helen Keller

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

                                                -Helen Keller

I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance.

                        -William Wallace

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