#oura

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#courage #pride #courage

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. ~Joshua 1:9 ↗

— Anonymous

#bible-verse #god #god-is-with-you #gospel #nasb

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. ↗

— Larry R. Lawrence

#courage

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#fear #courage

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear. ↗

— David Crosby

#fear #courage

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. ↗

— Charles M. Blow

#cowardice #courage

When you are born...your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in a while, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or else you'll never be brave again. Unfortunately, there are not so many facilities in your world that provide the kind of services we do. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#growing-up #inspirational #courage

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. ↗

— Igino Ugo Tarchetti

#courage

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. ↗

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#inspirational #courage