#courage

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees. ↗

— Jayne Ann Krentz

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Love is about grand gestures. Love is about airplanes pulling banners over stadiums, proposals on jumbo-trons, giant words in sky writing. Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn't even know was there. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson as Gabe

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Don't let the noise of other people drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. ↗

— Alisa Steinberg

#optimism #realists #courage

Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down. ↗

— Diane Duane

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Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear. ↗

— Plato

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When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#fearless #overcome-fear #overcoming-fears #phobia #phobias

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#courage #glory #honor #courage

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I want to look at you as you kill me. ↗

— Curtis Jobling

#death #strength #courage