Courage Quotes
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
--B. C. Forbes

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own understanding!
--Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
--Peter Senge

Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement
--George Adams

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
--Margaret Truman

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
--Richard Strauss, on conducting

Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
--Ayn Rand The Fountainhead.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Confidence Quotes
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence
--Vince Lombardi

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.
--Georgio Armani

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
--George Herbert.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
--Marie Curie Polish-French chemist

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself.
--Anais Nin

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
--Brian Tracy

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in your world.
--Brian Tracy

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
--Arsenio Hall actor

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
--Tom Landry

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen
--John Redman Coxe

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions
--Earl Gray Stevens

Self confidence is the key to the universe.
--Carrol Wrackley

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.
--Jack Gibb

Cute Friends Quotes
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
* Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
* Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
* You can only go as far as you push.
* Actions speak louder than words.
* The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
* Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff.
* Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
* A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
* If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else.
* When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there
* True friendship never ends.
* Friends are forever.
* Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
* Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
* What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
* NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. (Isn't that the truth?)
* Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
* Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you mad sometimes. Whether we realize it or not, everyone we know is very special to us. When we look back on our younger years, we will remember the people who went to school with us, the people who made us laugh, the people who hung out with us when nobody else would, and the people who made our lives much better simply by being a part of it.

There may be somebody who is thinking about you RIGHT NOW and wishing that you were around. That's the wonderful thing about friendship-you always feel loved and cared about.

The most important thing to remember is... Always appreciate the friends that you have. A fight may come and go very easily, but a friendship could last forever. For every second spent in anger, a minute of happiness is wasted. So send this to your friends and let them know that you care.