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If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bravery #commitment #consequences #courage #courageous

‎"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bravery #courage #fear #heartwarming #inspiration

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt. But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#lisa-bergren #waterfall #courage

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that the things that are truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#courage #helpfulness #history #kindness #loyalty

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage ↗

— Adam Gidwitz

#wisdom #courage

In this world only the paranoid survive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#funny #paranoid #wise #world #funny

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#knowledge #wisdom #courage

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ↗

— Herodotus

#cowardice #courage

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#courage #fact #honest #knowledge #lifelong-learning

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary ↗

— Pat Conroy

#courage