#courage

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know 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. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew. ↗

— Harper Lee

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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ↗

— Edward Verrall Lucas

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Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#courage #crisis #moment #courage

Being brave...is not always being unafraid. Maybe it's more like doing what you know is right even when you're too tired. Or scared. It's going on and doing it anyway...even when you think you can't take one more step. ↗

— Bodie Thoene

#life #courage

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you’ve really stopped to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do ↗

— Hotch

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La couleur du courage, c'est le brun ↗

— Mary Gentle

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He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn’t a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army’s nose. She’d taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She’d glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward? “Never,” he said again. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

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We were all born with the courage to stand up to our fears. If not...then we would have also been born with mouse holes to run into. ↗

— Timothy Pina

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Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cowardice #courage

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so. Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery. ↗

— Murong Xuecun

#literature #courage