#ura

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

War is fear cloaked in courage. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#fear #war

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can’t even imagine at this point? ↗

— Andy Andrews

#hard-times #inspirational #imagination

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway ↗

— Victor Castelo

#children-s-books #courage #inspirational #tommy-the-courageous-bird #inspirational

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#empower #empowering #empowerment #encouraging #growth

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat. ↗

— John Salazar

#driver #insurance #insurance companies #out #seat

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving. ↗

— Christine Taylor

#confidence #encourage #fun #get #keeps

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#door #end #five #had #natural