Avenues to Courage

Words of encouragement every day help students succeed along the way.

Here are some quotations Avenues to Success recently e-mailed to its subscribers reflecting the Avenue of Courage. You'll also find links to websites of interest to college students, their parents, and everyone else.

Courage is one of the six crucial Avenues that today's college students need to Succeed. The other five Avenues are:

* Honor
* Integrity
* Leadership
* Persistence
* Personal Relationships

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Courage Quotes for College Students *

* While the quotes are selected with college students in mind, everyone can pick up something from them.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author, Lecturer
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
- Alice Mackenzie, Swaim, 1897-1938, Writer and poet
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
- Edward W. Ziegler
. . .it must not be thought that bravery is devoid of fear; rather it is control of fear.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1895-1979, Author, orator and communicator
Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would we be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
- John Adams, 1735-1826, Second President of the United States
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian Bengali poet, novelist, essayist, composer
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1922-2007, American Novelist
Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder, 1906-2002, American movie producer
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
- Geoffrey F. Abert, Author - Before the Crash (Signet, 1982)
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
- Ruth Gordon, 1896-1985, American actress
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee, Born 1926, Writer Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
- Jean Paul Richter, 1763-1825, German writer
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
- Unknown
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Fear in itself is never a satisfactory form of adjustment. It is an index of temporary failure. It is a warning that we had better do something different and learn more about our difficulties.
- John J.B. Morgan, 1888-1945, American psychologist
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
- Unknown
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973, Israeli Statesman (First Prime Minister)
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
- Lt. Gen. Sir William Joseph Slim, British Field Marshal during the Burma campaign, where he was commander of the 14th 'forgotten' army.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Douglas Bradbury, Born 1920, American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; consistency and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
- Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, orator
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
- Lou Holtz, Born 1937, American college football coach
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
- Unknown
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American essayist, naturalist, poet
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson, Born 1952, Spiritual activist, author, lecturer
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
- Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533-1603

Remarks on Courage from Commencement Speeches

Below are quotes by speakers at graduation ceremonies. I'm including high school and college selections. The links are to the source of the quote.

Ipswich High School - June 1, 2008: I encourage all of you to face the world, and your fears, with the knowledge that we all do have the potential to do something incredible to help the world. Always remember the words of Mother Teresa: "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." For everything that we do, let's do it with passion, conviction, integrity and sincerity.

Andrea Stewart - valedictorian for Ipswich High School Class of 2008
University of California, Berkeley - Sociology Dept.., - May 22, 2008: For you and for your parents, this day marks a beginning as well as an ending, which means that it embodies a host of feelings. There's joy and excitement, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well done-for you, for what you've accomplished; for your parents, for having helped to steer you here. But for all of you, there's also the sadness and fear that comes with endings. For each new beginning requires that we give up the safety of the familiar, and walk alone into what is for us uncharted territory, an uncertain future. As you take that next step, you'll be saying goodbye to the particular struggles that come with the tasks of moving from adolescence to adulthood.

It isn't that there will be no more pain and no more joy. But they'll be different. And the issues that will engage you in this next stage of life will be different as well. For the world no longer belongs to "them" out there-to your parents and their friends and peers. It's yours now-yours and your friends, which means that it's your turn now to deal with the challenges the world will put before you. And that brings me to some of the things I want to talk about this afternoon....

Lillian Rubin, Sociologist, psychologist, and writer

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How to Succeed in School and College: How do you want to spend your life? Do you want to spend it having the things you want and doing the things you enjoy?A good education can help you to have what you want throughout the rest of your life. Flunking your education, on the other hand, could mean that you spend your life in dead-end jobs.
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Semmangudi looks back - at 90 - An interview by Late Shri ...: I mustered up courage and said, "No, it is indeed Kamach." I sang the song again, delineated the arohanam and avarohanam, and also explained that Kamboji and Kamach belonged to the same group of ragas. Ramachandra Iyer was pleased. ...