#courage

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby") ↗

— Alice Brown

#courage #death #fate #fear #luck

Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people. ↗

— David Hume

#courage

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#creative-process #encouragement #inspirational #art

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #american-history #civil-rights-movement #conflict-resolution #courage

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#encouragement #goals #inspirational-quotes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#encouragement #hope #inspirational #inspirational

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#inspirational #work #inspirational

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#encourage #fall #inspirational #life #love