As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

One isn't necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind true merciful generous or honest.

History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again.

We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there great family but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville where everybody's a songwriter everybody out there is an actor.

I shall suggest on the contrary that all communication relies to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell and that all our knowledge of mental processes like feelings or conscious intellectual activities is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Even God cannot change the past.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing whether they want it to be or not and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was it is an illegal act. The Congress the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Which goes to show you you can make all the laws you want but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them you have to understand that it will take a long time.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.