Your Quiet Inner Voice

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

My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson

In quietness are all things answered,
and is every problem quietly resolved.
In conflict there can BE no answer and no resolution.
- A Course In Miracles

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Find God in Silence

Not Fair, But Joyful

Endurance

Your Own Greatest Hero
      

Overcoming Obstacles Requires Thought as well as Stamina

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

Overcoming Obstacles Requires Thought as well as Stamina.
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Stand Up To Your Obstacles

Another Door

Don't Give Up

You Can Do It

Keep Moving
      

For Those in Need of Comfort for the Past and Courage for the Future

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

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

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll

If you can't fly then run,
if you can't run then walk,
if you can't walk then crawl,
but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

In the face of unthinkable catastrophe,
hold on to your courage, your moral values,
and your vision for a brighter tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I shine my Light of God wherever I see darkness. 

Further reading: Learning from Failure

Endurance

The Darkest Night
      

Courage Speaks Softly

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

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson

Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Circumstance Reveals a Person's Nature

Endurance
   

The Quiet Voice of Courage

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

My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Not Fair, But Joyful

Opening the Door

Your Own Greatest Hero

Endurance

Again Tomorrow

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

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

Today's affirmation:
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Endurance

Take Action - Now

You Can Do It

Feeling Stuck?

Encouragement for Hard Times

Be Yourself

Value Completion

All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Complete your lingering projects, and prepare for new beginnings.

Further reading: Keep Your Resolutions

Later is Never

Declare Victory

New Beginnings

Completion

Accomplishment

Endurance

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Endurance

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success. - Mary Anne Radmacher Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. - Virgil This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. - Winston Churchill Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren Tending the Garden of Our Lives