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You can't test courage cautiously.” (Annie Dillard) ↗

— Marcia Quinn Noren

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Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

When you are born...your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in a while, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or else you'll never be brave again. Unfortunately, there are not so many facilities in your world that provide the kind of services we do. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#growing-up #inspirational #courage

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. ↗

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

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Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#determination #inspiration #life #love #work

Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#courage #focus #persistence #courage

Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them. ↗

— Amine Ayad

#inspirational #wisdom #courage

Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#natural-selection #change

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#courage #courage

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#morality #courage