#oura

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#believe #courage #experience #first #me

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bedrock #blinded #could #discourage #faith

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#dense #discouragement #i

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#anyone #arts #because #business #chooses

When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the sweet, nourishing milk of peace, here indeed is something quite extraordinary! For if God performed such a great number of miracles through Joshua who conquered many a place and cast down many an enemy, he, Joshua, was a strong and powerful man. But, after all, a woman – a simple shepherdess – braver than any man ever was in Rome! As far as God is concerned, this was easily accomplished. But as for us, we never heard tell of such an extraordinary marvel, for the prowess of all the great men of the past cannot be compared to this woman's whose concern it is to cast out our enemies. This is God's doing: it is He who guides her and who has given her a heart greater than that of any man. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #joan-of-arc

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#encourage #respect #respect

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#arises #constitution #courage #duty #grows

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#courage #greatest #honor #man #mind

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #god #grace