#ura

Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession... ↗

— R.M. Ballantyne

#child-training #courage #courage

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#courage

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'. ↗

— Captain Bill McDonald Texas Ranger

#courage

Neither spoke, but lat silently listening to the ticking of the clock. A stair creaked, and a squeaky mouse scurried noisily through the wall. The darkness was oppressive, and after lying for some time screwing up his courage, he took the box of matches, and striking one, went downstairs for a candle. At the foot of the stairs the match went out, and he paused to strike another; and at the same moment a knock came so quiet and stealthy as to be scarcely audible, sounded on the front door. The matches fell from his hand and spilled in the passage. He stood motionless, his breath suspended until the knock was repeated. Then he turned and fled swiftly back to his room, and closed the door behind him. A third knock sounded through the house. ↗

— W.W. Jacobs

#horror #macabre #courage

You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength." When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman." "She was," Anna murmured, near tears again. "So are you. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#cameron-quinn #courage

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one. ↗

— Rosemary Sutcliff

#courage #fear #silence #courage

Deal with him, Hemingway! ↗

— James Joyce

#friendship #heart #humor #inspirational #leadership

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along. ↗

— C.P. Snow

#humility #wisdom #courage

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer. ↗

— Karen White

#inspirational #karen-white #the-beach-trees #courage

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible ↗

— Adedayo kingjerry

#inspirational #courage