#bravery

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#higher-life #lower-life #struggle #life

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#bravery #country #life #men #life

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master! ↗

— Mihail Drumeş

#childhood #courage #independence #power #courage

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #body talks #bravery #country #employees

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#attached #bravery #every #got #life

Bravery never goes out of fashion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#fashion #goes #never #out

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down ↗

— Tom Petty

#bravery

I was a lot braver when I was eight. ↗

— Claire Cook

#bravery #age

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. ↗

— Stephen King

#bravery #character #cowards #life-lessons #anger

...selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. All your life you’ve been training to forget yourself, so when you’re in danger, it becomes your first instinct. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#instinct #selfishness #life