#brave

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#courage #nobility #courage

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#bravery #courage #determination #inspirational #justice

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#cowards #death #heroes #the-bully-and-the-beast #death

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#change #resistance #society #trial #change

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him. He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy which was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all. Doubtless this feeling was due to his unusually acute sensibilities - his keen sense of the beautiful, which these hideous things outraged. Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of reselltment. What others have respected as the dignity of death had to him no existence - was altogether unthinkable. Death was a thing to be hated. It was not picturesque, it had no tender and solemn side - a dismal thing, hideous in all its manifestations and suggestions. Lieutenant Byring was a braver man than anybody knew, for nobody knew his horror of that which he was ever ready to encounter. ("A Tough Tussle") ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corpse #dead #death #fear #horror

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything. ↗

— Rajan Shrestha

#awareness #brave #bravery #humor #inspirational

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. ↗

— George Eads

#brave #fan #grandmother #heroes #i

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #america #be brave #before #brave

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#brave #brave soldiers #crown #frighten #frightened