Faint Hearted Quotes

• Leadership is not for the faint of heart

  Bill Hybels

  Heart, Adoption, Spider Man

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.4, Tyndale House

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• The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Strength, Light

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• Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

  Sophocles

  Sides, Fortune, Hearted

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 842,

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• You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

  Ralph Bunche

  Hard Work, Persistence, Path

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• Life is not for the faint of heart.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Adoption, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Abandoned

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Jesus

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Dream, Determination

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• True love is not for the faint-hearted.

  Jack Kornfield

  Love Is, True Love Is, Hearted

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Greatness, Men, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.

  Meher Baba

  Best Friend, Love Is, Games

  Meher Baba, A. K. Hajra (1969). “Life is a Jest”

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• Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

  Danielle Steel

  Family, Girl, Mother

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• The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Truth Is, Hearted

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Success, Reflection, Games

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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Engineering, Doubt

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

  Martin Filler

  Architecture, Weak, Hearted

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• The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Dream, Sex

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

  John W. Gardner

  Drama, Exercise, Play

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• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Light, Shining

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.71, Grove Press

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• This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

  Carl Rogers

  Good Life, Mean, Growing

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Love And Forgiveness, Hearted

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• When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

  Debra Winger

  Funny, Life, Distance

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• In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.

  Miguel Serrano

  Perseverance, War, Hero

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