#courage

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles #encouragement

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#complaining #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil. ↗

— Leah Griffith

#inspiration #spirituality #inspirational

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire. ↗

— Phoebe Stone

#humor #inspirational #humor

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ability #courage #happen #lack #never

ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee ↗

— Mammy Oaklee

#inspirational #inspirational

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dark-clouds #discourage #haters #jealousy #negative-people

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion #courage