Tag Archives: Courage

Thought For the Day: Finding the Occasional Straw of Truth Awash In A Great Ocean of Confusion and Bamboozle Requires Intelligence, Vigilance, Dedication, and Courage

“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems … Continue reading

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In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)

In the Focus and Calm (Are Moments of Truth)by Michael DoyleThere in the focus and calmIs a remembrance of who you areIt comes back like a twist of balmThat you reach for, no matter how farOnce this fortress has been … Continue reading

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First Principles: If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: I Learned That Courage Was Not the Absence of Fear, But the Triumph Over it. The Brave Man Is Not He Who Does Feel Afraid, But He Who Conquers That Fear

“I learned that courage was 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.” – former South African President Nelson Mandela

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Thought For the Day: It Is Curious That Physical Courage Should Be So Common In the World and Moral Courage So Rare

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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We Are Who We Are

We Are Who We Areby Michael DoyleWe are who we areNot from our ancestorsBut because of who we cultivateAs our souls travel among the starsScratched and scrapped in our courageSearching for hope we might encourageTo remove the malignant tumorThat spreads … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Rightness Of A Thing Isn’t Determined By the Amount of Courage It Takes

“The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes.” -Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983)

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Overcoming the Flesh

Overcoming the Fleshby Michael DoyleHow then do we find our wayThroughout our present and everydayWhat then will bring us to joyThan in a buoyancy we can employIt is to live as if fully persuadedTo live the Christian life not evadedBut … Continue reading

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On Behalf of the Uyghurs

On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is the Courage To Continue That Counts

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

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