#ice

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing. ↗

— Joshua Hartzell

#inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. ↗

— Joan Chittister OSB

#justice #possibility #prophet #prophets #vision

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#inspirational #justice #inspirational

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes? ↗

— Laurie R. King

#inspirational #laurie-r-king #mary-russell #sherlock-holmes #the-beekeeper-s-apprentice

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#coward #cowardice #fear #hero #heroism

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value. ↗

— Thomas Payne

#sacrifice #inspirational

Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as barely human. What breaks a human mind out of that iron cage of mistrust, is a sacrifice. The martyr who gives up everything, who abandons all personal gain, who lays down his life for the good of those outside his group. He becomes a symbol all can rally around. So instead of trying to make a selfish, violent primate somehow empathize with the whole world, which is impossible, you only need to get him to remember and love the martyr. As one is forgotten, another must replace it. ↗

— David Wong

#inspirational #sacrifice #selflessness #inspirational

The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#choices #free-will #futility #labyrinth #inspirational

Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way. ↗

— Joanne Clancy

#inspiration #life #love #romance #experience