Beverly Jenkins Quotes

Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • People
  • Live
  • Courage

• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Political
  • Courage
  • Write

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Courage
  • Fight

• Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Courage
  • My Life

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Imperfections

• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Own

• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Courage
  • Give

• I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

  

  Beth Moore
  • Women
  • Today
  • Courage

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Joy

• I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Decision

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Courage
  • Fathers
  • Sons