#braver

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #inspirational

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational #life #inspirational

I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt. ↗

— Kathryn Wesley

#inspirational

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bravery #chance #chances #courage #inspiration

I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fear #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly. ↗

— Mary DeMuth

#courage #inspirational-quotes #trust #courage

Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.” “Courage requires options,” the man adds. “There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.” “No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#courage #death #death-and-love #death-and-sickness #death-of-a-loved-one

If the apperance doesn't scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn't nothing will . ↗

— Maria Bernardin

#bullying #courageous #mind-body-spirit #courage

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#courage #faith #strength #strength-and-courage #strength-through-adversity