#bravery

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

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always! ↗

— Bryant McGill

#change #never-ending #reality-of-life #truth #change

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

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war." [Funeral Oration of Pericles] ↗

— Thucydides

#courage #fame #freedom #irony #pericles

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#bravery #courage #embarassment #fear #fury

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#courage #cowardice #development #humanity #strength

A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don't know, is that I grew up with phobias and many fears. I was scared of everything. So, I write of courage not because I have not known fear, but I write of courage because I have walked with fear but I have made the choice not to fear it. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fear #fears #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. ↗

— Mike Norton

#brave #bravery #choice #consequence #courage