#oura

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance. ↗

— Seth Godin

#courage #initiative #courage

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage-to-be-oneself #individuality #change

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#courage

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming. ↗

— Tana French

#courage #fear #love #romance #courage

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#courage

A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grateful #happy #life #new-day #opportunities

It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life. ↗

— Menna van Praag

#hope #inspirational #light #courage

If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we'd be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar. ↗

— Jen Stephens

#eagles #faith #god #leap-of-faith #soar

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-` 'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy' - Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I ↗

— Alexander Pope

#public-opinion #values #courage

He who whets his steel, whets his courage ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#military #courage