#ura

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. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#courage

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#truth #unjust-criticism #courage

The people of jewel," said Olga Ciavolga,"treat their children like delicate flowers. They think they will not survive without constant protection. But there are parts of the world where young boys and girls spend weeks at a time with no company except a herd of goats. They chase away wolves. They take care of themselves, and they take care of the herd. And so, when hard times come - as they always do in the end - those children are resourceful and brave. If they have to walk from one end of the county to the other, carrying their baby brother and sisters, they will do it. If they have to hide during the day and travel at night to avoid soldiers, they will do it. They do not give up easily." The tunnel took a sharp right-hand turn and, for a moment, the old woman s voice was lost. Something dropped onto Goldie's arm, and she opened her mouth to yelp - and thought of those children carrying their baby brothers and sisters through the night - and closed her mouth and kept going. She rounded the corner in time to hear Olga Ciavolga murmur,"Of course, I am not saying that it is a good thing to give children such heavy responsibility's. They must be allowed to have a childhood. But they must also be allowed to find their courage and their wisdom, and learn when to stand and when to run away. After all, if they are not permitted to climb the trees, how will they ever see the great and wonderful world that lies before them? ↗

— Lian Tanner

#growing-up #overprotective #responsibility #courage

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#chance #courage #determination #emma #important