Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation (24 October 1947)
Context: My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.
“It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
On testing his vaccine against polio on himself, his wife, and his three sons (9 May 1955)
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“What in all the world has courage to do with hope?”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) German philosopher
Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 381
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“Never give up hope, try with confidence; you will be successful.”
Arifur Rahman (1984) Award-winning Cartoonist, Animator, Illustrator
Source: Quoted in Animation short film Try, which was written and directed by him in 2010.
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Undated
Source: Conversation with Prem Rawat The Prem Rawat Foundation