#oura

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. ↗

— William Hague

#common #common sense #country #encouraging #independence

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#brave #courage #esteemed #hence #highly

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#fear #gloomy #god #him #ideas

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#strength-and-courage #courage

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. ↗

— John Irving

#courage

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#foundation #optimism

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#detente #encouraging #especially #expansion #failed

The environment on set is very encouraging. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#environment #set #very

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. ↗

— John Simon

#decide #democracy #encourages #ignorant #majority