#oura

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness ↗

— Donald Bradman

#athletes #dignity #sportsman #courage

She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#courage

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspirational #survival #courage

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#fear #courage

I would like to share with all Somaliland youth to know that courage is not visible in everywhere but its unexpectedly found in unexpected places. We must have courage to first change our people's perception towards how developed people attained their development. Development does not always come suddenly but people's courage with practice. And we are in the world ↗

— Mohamed Farah Abdi

#change

She broke the seal to find the flowing, masculine script that had come to mean the world to her. Courage, my love. I need you to possess the same fire that led you from Scotland to Normandy that first day when we met. Whatever the day brings, know that I will always love you. You carry with you, my heart, my soul, my very being. Be strong for me, Kenna. Ever your knight, S Postscriptum S doesn't stand for Stryder. She laughed at that, even though her eyes were filled with tears. -Simon in a letter to Kenna ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#kinley-macgregor #simon #where-s-my-hero #courage

If you want to do something courageous, try Love. ↗

— Sean King

#love #courage

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything! ↗

— K.L. Toth

#courage #goal #intent #intention #passion

I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was always talking about unions and unity. But he had a way of explaining the meanings of words in utter simplicity, like "work" which he translated into "power," and "power" into "security." I was drawn to him because I felt that he had lived in many places where the courage of men was tested with the cruelest weapons conceivable. ↗

— Carlos Bulosan

#filipino #filipino-american #filipino-authors #unions #courage

You desire me. I can scent it on the wind.” He drew in a breath and licked his lips. “I have been waiting for your courage to bring you to me, but I have grown tired of our little game. ↗

— Stella Berkley

#fantasy #shifter #courage