#rage

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#courage

I volunteer as tribute! ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#inspirational #courage

Courage and fear were one thing too. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fear #courage

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved. ↗

— Melanie Rawn

#courage

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm. ↗

— Jonathan Shay

#pride #reality #war #courage

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#democracy #justice #prop- #courage

Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other. ↗

— Wai Lan Yuen

#vulnerability #courage

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#courage

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#bravery #courage #dare #daring #scared

Act as if it were impossible to fail. ↗