#grit

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #personal-responsibility #responsibility #song-of-ice-and-fire #death

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do. ↗

— Charles Finch

#beauty

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. ↗

— John Webster

#fame #integrity #life #death

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

Friendship is thinking of the other person first. ↗

— George Alexiou

#happiness #inspirational #integrity #joy #love

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless. ↗

— Matt Baldwin

#faith

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective! ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#equality

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#integrity #family

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#fanon #freedom #negritude #onwuegbute #family