#ura

Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#inspiration #courage

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#thoughts #courage

You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward. ↗

— Pricilla Cummings

#courage #life #moving-forward #roads #courage

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#courage

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #deception #eyes #fortitude

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies ↗

— Julie Anne Grasso

#middle-grade #simile #courage

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#courage #temptation #courage

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#hit-list #laurell-hamilton #laurell-k-hamilton #life-lesson #urban-fantasy

Do not hate someone else’s ‘shine’…but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#t-f-hodge #courage

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance. ↗

— Thom S. Rainer

#leadership #courage