#oura

Never mind," I said crisply. "I have my methods." I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer and let her have it right in the thorax. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#jeeves #courage

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#complicated #courage #life #master-harold #master-harold-and-the-boys

Faith in the Lord begins in fear, and comes to an end in spiritual courage. ↗

— George Hammond

#courage

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It’s easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It’s much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#peace #courage

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational #social-class #courage

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#courageous #fatherhood #fiction #courage

This in essence is my goal. To set an example by doing what is good. If I live openly and honestly, I set an example of virtue, humanness, restoration, and healing. I give others permission to join me on my journey despite the fear of failure or the rejection it might elicit when they know they are not alone in their experience. The more of us who amass the courage to embark openly on this path, the more normal this experience becomes, effectively eliminating the tactic of shame and isolation that the enemy so often uses to cause us to falter. ↗

— Riisa Renee

#fear #inspirational #love #restoration #shame

I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly. ↗

— Charity Parkerson

#inspiration #courage

To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#bridge #commitment #courage #dreams #goals

She is gambling that he is good. There on the table, neither frozen nor yet moving, Lane Dean Jr. sees all this, and is moved with pity and with also something more, something without any name he knows, that is given to him to feel in the form of a question that never once in all the long week's thinking and division had even so much as occurred -- why is he so sure he doesn't love her? Why is one kind of love any different? What if he has no earthly idea what love is? What would even Jesus do? For it was just now he felt her two small strong hands on his, to turn him. What if he is just afraid, if the truth is no more than this, and if what to pray for is not even love but simple courage, to meet both her eyes as she says it and trust his heart? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#courage