Quotes About Courage And Learning

#1. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Guy Claxton

#2. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. When the whispers of fear and doubt start screaming inside of you, turn up the volume of your courage by focusing on your faith, energizing through example, living to learn, and learning to love and be loved better.

Connie Kerbs

#5. Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving.

Michelle Aguilar

#6. Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

Junot Diaz

#7. A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Leo Buscaglia

#8. We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.

Traudl Junge

#9. Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

Robin Sharma

#10. Walk gently, and be brave.

Eleanor Brownn

#11. There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey.

Jennifer DeLucy

#14. The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Bill Hybels

#15. Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning

Jonathan Raymond

#16. For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.

Nikki Rowe

#17. People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Natalie Cole

#18. TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Sharon Stone

#19. We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#20. I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

Emily Mortimer

#21. This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Karen Russell

#22. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Michael Meade

#23. A Teacher who has courage to laugh at herself or himself; laugh with students, and laugh off difficulties is the harbinger of positive trails and cheerful learning outcomes.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#24. The stories I read gives strength to my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

Tony Curl

#26. I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. Would I do it again? No. But that's part of the learning process and getting from point A to point B.

Christina Aguilera

#27. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

Dan Millman

#28. Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Joanna Brooks

#29. Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Marshall Ganz

#30. I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try.

Hilari Bell

#33. Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It's going to hold.

Deborah Eisenberg

#34. As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G.K. Chesterton

#35. Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.

Samuel Beckett

#36. The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#37. It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

Joan Larkin