#oura

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#assure #becomes #courage #discussions #efficient

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#ethnic #handling #issues #other #relations

From caring comes courage. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#caring #comes

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing. ↗

— Jo Brand

#actually #because #big #embarrassed #encouraging

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. ↗

— Mo Yan

#courage #i #know #real #true

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#attempt #clear #firmly #go #hand

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#class #dynamics #encouraged #exercises #experiment

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. ↗

— John Burns

#administrative #advocate #because #beyond #courage

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either