#braver

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#coward #cowardice #fear #hero #heroism

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creativity #inspirations #living #resilience #inspirational

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. ↗

— Paul Auster

#fearlessness #insanity #nothing-to-lose #inspirational

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#perseverance #perseverance

Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot. ↗

— J. Leigh Bralick

#bravery #human-nature #nobility #men

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cowardice #cowardice

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you. ↗

— El Cordobes

#bravery #nobody #teach #thing #you