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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for~John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic (1928) ↗

— John A. Shedd

#courage #inspirational #nautical #risk-taking #courage

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#life #courage

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate. ↗

— Barack Obama

#inauguration #inspiration #courage

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty ↗

— Albert Einstein

#holocaust #courage

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. ↗

— Aberjhani

#encouragement #famous-poets #famous-quotes #fear #inspiration

The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #courage

Every great day has a story and a song! ↗

— Faith Reese Martin

#courage #fantasy #friendship #historical-fiction #lost-colony

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#culture #theology #courage

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conviction #courage #determination #entail #genius

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#alternatives #appreciation #courage #honour #inspiring-quotes