#brave

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#bravery #cancer #courage #fear #intelligent

Have nuts and be nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #crazy #dreams #funny #humor

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#confidence #courage #danger #fear #fearless

Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#inspiration #courage

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #generous #giving #grace

Those who serve and those who rule Lepers, kings and mindless fools Empire leaders, tyrant's tools All will fade with time Hail the cowards, brave at heart The ugly and the beautiful Those who never felt their souls All live transient lives ↗

— Kreator

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You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus ↗

— J. Scott Savage

#bravery #courage #courageous #crazy #crazy-people

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#courage #fear #courage

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#absence #afraid #brave #brave man #conquers

Without fear there cannot be courage. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#courage #fear #inspirational #courage