Sunrise in Sanur, Bali. Image: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Every end of the year when we welcome the arrival of New Year, we usually make a new resolution for new hope.

We begin to realize there are many mistakes that we have done. As human beings we make mistakes either fair to you, your family, and friends and even to the people around us. We can improve our lives in the beginning of the New Year and throughout the year. 

We do not need promises, but we need to have a willingness to sincerely appreciate this life, more caring, more spirit to go forward, willing to change from the old vision, to a new horizon. Believe me, triumph and success plus more happy smiles already waiting for us in the new era. 

Are we ready to greet the new sun every morning?

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”  Oprah Winfrey

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughan

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution. Jay Leno

 Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. Unknown.

  Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” Brad Paisley.

Dolphin in Lovina Beach, Bali. Image: balisilvertrans.com

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“For last year's words belong to last year's language . And next year's words await another voice.”   T.S. Eliot

Whatever resolution we write, which is important we stay humble, optimistic, confident and courageous to change to a new and better direction. Komang Setiabudi, Bali.

When we are going to do something, such as to make business decisions, want to express love to someone and do certain things, it takes some courage.

Without courage, nothing will change in this world. Because one person who has the courage and confidence higher than others, then a country could be free, prosperous and advanced than other countries. Because of the courage and tireless efforts, a small company can be a huge empire that affect many others. Because of the courage of ordinary person was able to inspire others to act.

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”   Jean Sibelius, Finnish Composer

 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain 

True courage is not the absence of fear—but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.-Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  Ambrose Redmoon

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t go anywhere. --Unknown

“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”  Rosanne Cash

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart 

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. --Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill 

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. Corra Harris

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill 

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. Harold Wilson

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. Abraham Lincoln 

“Let me be a free man. Free to travel. Free to stop. Free to work.  Free to choose my own teachers. Free to follow the religion of my fathers. Free to think and talk and act for myself.”  Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Indian Tribe.     

         

One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson 

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin 

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.  Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Ronald Reagan 

Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it cant rain forever. - Hailee

          Fear and courage are brothers.  Proverb

Please remember this fantastic quotes: 

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy 

It seems true courage and fear are like brothers or gold coin with two sides. If we have a strong dream, fear it will turn into strength to achieve success and change for the better.Let's do it. 

Act now for a better future.

Bukit Jambul, Bali (Image: Balipurnama.com)

Confidence is needed to achieve success and dreams, even to do simple things. Without confidence you find hard to express your love to someone you love. Some say, that: “Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.”  


A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.  Lao Tzu 


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.  Mark Twain 
Put your future in good hands - your own.  Unknown
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.  Jesse Jackson


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”  Peter T. Mcintyre
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”  Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)


“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  Wendy Wasserstein


Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre


“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
 Rosalynn Carter


 “Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”  Gwladys Douglas Bader


Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  Peter T Mcintyre
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  ~Norman Vincent Peale


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Unknown
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.  ~Paul Tillich


There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' Andre Gide


Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control.  Richard Kline
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer


Confidence is needed to do something, but it should be regulated so as not to overdo it. Success is a journey and it takes confidence to achieve it. Build your confidence with practice and learn from others' successes.