#rage

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#bravery #cancer #courage #fear #intelligent

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#politics #courage

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#courage

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.  ↗

— Bill Hybels

#leadership #courage

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. ↗

— Paul Auster

#courage

I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. ↗

— Barack Obama

#hope #optimism #courage

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #jon-snow #lord-commander-mormont #song-of-ice-and-fire #courage

Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge. ↗

— Anne Perry

#inspirational #courage

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #reality #truth #courage

Have nuts and be nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #crazy #dreams #funny #humor