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“Justice is not best served by a judicial system or a collection of agreed upon rules. Rather, it is best served when an individual refuses to allow an injustice to be the end of the story by choosing to live justly despite the injustice of the story.”

Christian Values Justice Integrity Ethics Determination Injustice Morals Godly

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“It is the man or woman of wisdom who will recognize that to embrace the consequences of our choices, and to own the outcome of our behaviors is the single path to freedom, and that any other path will always, always, lead to enslavement.”

Wisdom Integrity Determination Responsible Maturity Accountability Valor

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“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender everything to protect such principles. Yet, these very characteristics are the unbending elements that raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and turmoil, and let us all be warned that without them we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and turmoil.”

Values Principles Ethics Determination Surrender Morals Fortitude

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“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.”

God Christian Values Faith Jesus Ethics Determination Morals Possibilities Fortitude

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“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

Problem Wisdom Determination Patience Patient Calm Persistence Fortitude

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“What we as a nation have lost waits to be reclaimed by people sufficiently humble to repent of their role in this loss, brave enough to cast aside everything that they cherish in the pursuit of this utterly vital reclamation, and stubborn enough to persist in the pursuit until the reclamation is wholly and entirely complete.”

America Politics Destiny United States Ethics Determination Patriotic Patriot Founding Fathers

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“Someone once said that we should ‘shoot for the moon’. I would whole-heartedly concur for this simple reason; once we get to the moon we are now in a position to ‘shoot for the stars’.”

Challenges Destiny Dreams Determination Goals Mission Fortitude Tenacity Aspirations

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“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”

Faith Fear Vision Failure Determination Fearless Mediocrity Fearful Tenacity Knocked Down

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“The size of the giant in front of you will always be determined by the size of the giant within you.”

Faith Challenges Self Esteem Determination Obstacles Self Confidence Giants Barriers Fortitude

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“Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.”

Belief Self Esteem Determination Self Confidence Potential Possibilities Confident Pretend

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“If something didn’t happen, it’s probably not that it couldn’t. Rather, it’s more that we chose not to believe that it could.”

Faith Self Esteem Confidence Determination Self Confidence Self Worth Opportunities Possibilities Fortitude

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“What I wish to be falls short of what I’ve chosen to be, neither of which possesses the ability to sabotage what I can be.”

Choices Ability Determination Goals Possibilities Sabotage Aspirations

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“The idea of ‘fair’ is less what happened to us, and more what we did about what happened to us.”

Choices Justice Determination Injustice Fairness Fair

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“Right now I am making the choice to live out this day choosing to be intentional about not being unintentional.”

Choices Focus Determination Self Discipline Fortitude Intentional Purposeful Unintentional

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“Far too much of my life is defined by ‘ready, fire, aim,’ which explains why my target has no holes in it.”

Life Choices Determination Aim Defined Target

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“If I am not transforming those around me it is because I have chosen not to transform that which is within me.”

Choices Change Determination Transformation Personal Growth Personal Development Laziness Transform

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“No real dream is safe.”

Dream Purpose Vision Risk Comfort Calling Safe Determination Familiarity

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“Going backwards in life means that I have to cover twice the distance just to catch up with where I should be.”

Life Purpose Losing Determination Goals Backwards Gaining Forwards

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“I don’t know that dreams die. I think it’s more that they are never born.”

Belief Born Dreams Confidence Determination Brave Courageous Die

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“If there are gates in your boundaries you have a freeway in the making.”

Ethics Determination Boundaries Compromise Decisions Gates Advocacy Freeway

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“We can choose to go wherever the winds of life happen to blow us, or we can intentionally chart a course that will blow us away. And as I ponder that thought, I realize that there are very few decisions in life whose destinations are so frighteningly opposite.”

Wisdom Calling Determination Goals Decisions Foolishness Deliberate Life Choices Circumstance

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“A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.”

Passion Decision Courage Struggle Commitment Determination Standing Committed Decisions Tenacity Goals Quotes Stand

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“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.”

Love Sacrifice Commitment Determination Resilience Actions Loving Tenacity

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“History is a vivid declaration of freedoms sought and freedoms denied. Yet, may we be sufficiently brave to be the nation that pens a history where freedom never needs to be ‘sought’ because it has become the indomitable essence of everything that we stand on, stand for, and stand in zealous defense of.”

America History United States Sacrifice Determination Bravery Defense Fight

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“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”

Goal Leadership Leader Sacrifice Commitment Determination Title

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“The mark of a real dream is that it will cost you all of the things that achieving the dream will grant you.”

Dream Vision Sacrifice Cost Determination Goals Fortitude Tenacity

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“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully appreciated when we see the whole of it rather than spending the entirety of our lives simply walking a part of it.”

Life Challenges Sacrifice Journey Mountain Determination Experience Goals Fortitude Ascent

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“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you have not given the whole of yourself at any time in your life.”

Life Sacrifice Determination Fortitude Fatigue Exhaustion

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“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.”

Race Existence Sacrifice Hard Work Depends Determination Run Run The Race

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“An idea, regardless of how noble it might be, is only an idea until someone has the idea to act upon it.”

Dream Action Decision Vision Sacrifice Determination Noble Idea

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“A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And I forget the second part, the first part doesn’t matter.”

Work Sacrifice Journey Calling Determination Destination Invest

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“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.”

“To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore.”

Life Growth Challenges Courage Risk Sacrifice Determination Determined Shore Daring Bold Intentionality Risky Float Grab Wrestle

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“There’s the old saying, ‘Actions speak louder than words.’ If that’s true (and I believe it is), maybe our first action should be to shut up, our second action should be to step up, and our third action should be to never give up doing either of the above.”

Action Acting Talking Determination Initiative Stopping Fortitude Working

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“Intent without action will leave every word that I use to describe my intent as empty and best never having been said.”

Action Commitment Determination Empty Intention Words Accountability Hollow Intent

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“Love is a choice as much as it is a feeling. For without the former, the latter doesn’t have a chance.”

Love Decision Attitude Commitment Determination Choice Loving Fortitude Tenacity Choosing

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“The greatest battle involves the choice to fight one.”

Battle Determination Bravery Combat Fight Fortitude

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“A flock of birds came bursting across the treetops in an explosion of life flying headlong into the wind of a gathering storm. And as they passed I thought, “such should be the extent of our passion and such should be the intensity of our flight.”

Challenges Determination Bravery Storm Flying Flight Fortitude Birds

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“The size of any step is always dwarfed by the fact that we took it.”

Determination Bravery Size Fortitude Step Dwarfed

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“If it’s big enough for us to handle, God’s not in it and we shouldn’t be either.”

God Christian Faith Challenges Vision Determination Bravery Fortitude

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“If your dream is manageable, it’s just a nice idea that’s pretending to be a dream.”

Dream Purpose Vision Determination Bravery Goals Fortitude Aspirations

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“Cowardice is to couch our selfish actions in the finery of such noble phrases as bravery and determination. Yet the worst cowardice of all is our refusal to admit to the illegitimate use of such words.”

Fool Determination Bravery Selfish Phrases Coward Cowardice Illegitimate

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“I’m not interested in the man who stands looking at rivers. Rather, I’m interested in the man who’s so curious about what’s on the other side that he can’t help but build a bridge.”

Challenges Adventure Determination Bravery Curiosity Goals Boldness Explore Pioneer

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“Mastering the art of determination is always superior to learning the skill of the sport.”

Art Lessons Determination Bravery Fortitude Sport Skill Bold

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“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.”

Faith Hope Fear Determination Bravery Coward Cowardice Frightening Fortitude

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“I watched a squirrel fall from a rather high branch. Upon hitting the ground, he bounced slightly, paused, shook himself vigorously and then immediately scampered back up to the very same place on the very same branch from which he’d fallen. There are some that might call that stupidity. Then there are others like myself who would call that tenacity. And while I generally have no interest in being a squirrel, in this particular respect I wouldn’t mind being like one.”

Nature Determination Bravery Persistence Consistency Tenacity Falling Squirrel

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“The tomorrow in my mind is often what I wish today would have been had I not been held hostage to the fears that my yesterday left me with.”

Today Tomorrow Determination Bravery Yesterday Frightened Fortitude Fears Intimidation

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