#braver

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168) ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#courage

Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends ↗

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#courage #courage

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#courage #courage

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#bravery #courage #danger #faith #fear

I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going. ↗

— Roz Savage

#courage #fatigue #inspiration #motivation #sense-of-purpose

I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. ↗

— Zoë Marriott

#hopelessness #love #lovers #romance #dreams

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least. ↗

— Jenny Diski

#bravery #discretion #experiences #tourism #travel

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#determination #frankenstein #men #family

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. ↗

— Darren Shan

#destiny #life #life

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#love #life