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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Winston Churchill

“God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.”
~ Reggie White

"So there we are and it's all pink and we're riding in cupcakes, and I'm scared to death."
~Shawn Case

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
~ Mary Ann Radmacher

"It takes a special kind of person to be a firefighter. It begins with a different sense of direction. When an area becomes too dangerous for everybody else, you take it over. When others are looking for the exits, our firefighters are looking for the way in."
~ President George W. Bush

" True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
~ Arthur Ashe

"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.”
~ Lise Hand

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
~ Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be.”
~ Meg Cabot

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of more necessary. "
~ Ernest Hemingway

"So you did the Prince of Darkness. Does it make you a bad person? Not necessarily..."
- Patricia Carlin, "How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is The AntiChrist"

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
~ Angela Monet

"Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?"
-Calvin and Hobbes

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
~ Erich Fromm

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Atticus Finch

Oh I’d rather walk a winding road
Rather know the things I know
See the world with my own eyes
No regrets, no looking back, no goodbyes
No goodbyes...
~ Kim Richie

"The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"But who am I kidding? Dates are things normal girls have. Girls who have time to think about nail polish and facials. You know what I think about? Ambush tactics. Beheading. Not exactly the stuff dreams are made of."
~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right."
- Robert E. Lee

"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words... "
~ Calvin and Hobbes

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
- Emo Phillips

"I have little doubt that once St. George had killed the dragon, he was heartily afraid of the princess."
- G.K. Chesterton

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
- Lucille Ball

"There is always safety in valor."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All's well that ends with cute E.R. doctors, I always say."
~ Buffy

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."
~ Ernest Hemingway

"My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?"
~ Mitch Hedberg

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening

"You need to be kidnapped by those people in the blacked-out van and deprogrammed before you're returned to normal society."
- Cindy

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Angel: "Maybe people like us don't get to have that."
Cordelia: "Angel, there ARE no people like us."
~ "Angel"

"You know, I always say that a day without an autopsy is like a day without sunshine."
~ Buffy