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So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#brom #christopher-paolini #eragon #inspirational #martyr

Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts. ↗

— Veronica Mist

#cowardice #inspirational #courage

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me. ↗

— Benilde Little

#awareness #confidence #inspirational #knowledge-of-self #courage

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ↗

— Dorothy Bernard

#fear #courage

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #shakespeare #courage

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. ↗

— Richard Adams

#leadership #courage

It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth! ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#flaws #insecurities #love #personal-growth #strength

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography #pornography #movies

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it. ↗

— Steve Chandler

#courage #fear #goals #overcoming #courage

Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going right through my head and down to my legs, and I know that it exists inside me. It's the one that lets me stand up and walk forward. So that I can walk forward, without ever trembling. If I stopped here I feel like it would break...My soul would break. Even more than if my heart stops beating, to me that is the most important. Even if I become senile and my back gets bent, I still have to walk forward. ↗

— Sorachi Hideaki

#gintama #manga #strength #courage