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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary ↗

— Pat Conroy

#courage

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#desire #kill #time #truth #courage

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#courage #grace #courage

What we know matters but who we are matters more. ↗

— Brené Brown

#identity #worth #courage

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#courage #pets #poem #poetry #courage

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#errors #life #remorse #courage

It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#god #courage

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#family #joy #laughter #courage

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ↗

— Harper Lee

#courage

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#accept #being #oneself #spite #unacceptable