#courage

If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#courage #fear #fears #fight #fight-your-fears

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. ↗

— Cliff Gladwin

#clutch #cometh #courage #inspirational #inspire

I know I'm not funny. I mean, let's face it, I'm no Groucho Marx. But if you're a guy, and you're watching late night television, are you gonna start jacking off to Groucho? I don't think so! ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#courage

I faced the "dead lion" courageously but will definitely run if I meet a roaring one... ↗

— Bahterawan

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I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday ↗

— Anne Frank

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Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard... ↗

— Morgan Matson

#gift #practice #talent #crime

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#courage