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Whatever you do, you need courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Criticism, Needs

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Courage, Believe

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Soldier, Needs

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Life, Courage

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Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Brian Tracy

Sports, Choices, Focus

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Peace, Men

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

Children, Live Life, Inspiration

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 15, 2014

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I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.

Brenna Yovanoff

Matter, Sometimes, Complicated

Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Leopold Schefer

Prayer, Eye, Heaven

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Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

Flannery O'Connor

Christian, Fall, Thinking

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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

Ellen G. White

Voice, People, Feelings

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The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Jeff Cooper

Important, Vigor, Self Defense

Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Book, Writing

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

Patricio Aylwin

Might, Today, Elude

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We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

James Hansen

Years, Humanity, Climate

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The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

George Mason

President, Nominations, Consideration

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To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

Richard P. Feynman

Science, Doors, Order

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Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

Pat Buchanan

Destiny, Choices, United States

Source: www.npr.org

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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

K. D. Lang

Couple, Believe, Two

"What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Middle, Courses

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And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.

Rebecca Goldstein

Children, Taken, Spheres

Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.

Frederic C. Howe

War, Taken, Class

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Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the price of dealing with criticism from people who matter. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.' Second, you must pay the price of overcoming your fears. Failure, rejection, and looking foolish are common fears - but they are just feelings that can be conquered and removed from your thoughts. Finally, you must be willing to pay the price of hard work in order to realize your dream.

John C. Maxwell

Dream, Hard Work, Journey

FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jun 09, 2014

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Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

Wislawa Szymborska

Sex, Thinking, Space

Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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