courage

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d2605ed	The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.	cared convictions courage who-cares	Margaret Atwood
a4d3d78	"That's what it is to be a hero," Riordan says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can."	courage hero hope	Juliet Marillier
d2ce415	Would you walk away from Omelas?	courage decision-makingsion strength-and-courage strength-of-character the-ones-we-leave-behind	Ursula K. Le Guin
e4c7878	He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603)	courage explorers james-lancaster sailors spice-islands	Giles Milton
5305982	I wish I could tell you that the thought of deserting Vera never entered my mind, that my friend was in danger and I went to her rescue without hesitation. Truly, though, at that moment I hated her. I hated her for being clumsy at the worst possible time, for staring up at me with her panicked brown eyes, electing me to be her savior even though Grisha was the only one she had ever kissed. I knew that I could not live with the memory of those eyes pleading for me, and she knew it, too, and I hated her even as I jumped down from the gate, lifted her to her feet, and hauled her to the iron bars.	courage	David Benioff
8a2cdee	The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.	courage death fearless god	David Benioff
1fd1fb1	The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.	challenges courage existence mistakes speaking teachers teaching	Madeleine L'Engle
246c7ff	"Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder. "But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it." Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad. "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper." He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room."	courage luck mediocrity temper	W. Somerset Maugham
fa547b5	The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.	bravery courage fear	Lori Lansens
f3ff440	This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.	courage praise	Richard Matheson
6a8e9cf	It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.	books change courage creativity ideas revolution science	E.L. Konigsburg
0244271	When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that no one will know their vulgarities; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. It affords you then an inordinate amount of self-esteem. You have the self-satisfaction of courage without the inconvenience of danger.	conventionality courage insightful	W Somerset Maugham
697e615	I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.	courage recklessness	Ben Aaronovitch
3ef8ad8	He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.	courage fear	E.R. Eddison
edadba2	But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.	activism courage determination hard-choices	Naomi Novik
f946fc4	.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.	cope courage death decision dignity humour life way-of-life withdraw	Mitch Albom
f062aad	"Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?"."	cool courage fear	Martha Grimes
04713e1	Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.	carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers	Donald Barthelme
52d1719	Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.	character courage disbelief faith	Michael Marshall Smith
72d044c	There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.	courage rise-up	Jim Butcher
1fc80bd	Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contemptuous of history. I made my life into my art and it was an unqualified success. The blaze of my immolation threw its light into every corner of the land where uncounted young men sat each in his own darkness. What would I have done in Megara!? - think what I would have missed! I awoke the imagination of the century. I banged Ruskin's and Pater's heads together, and from the moral severity of one and the aesthetic soul of the other I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, I took charge of my own myth. I dipped my staff into the comb of wild honey. I tasted forbidden sweetness and drank the stolen waters. I lived at the turning point of the world where everything was waking up new - the New Drama, the New Novel, New Journalism, New Hedonism, New Paganism, even the New Woman. Where were you when all this was happening?	courage life love	Tom Stoppard
46a8995	You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.	courage inspiration will	Norton Juster
3fa885d	They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.	courage friends	Tad Williams
2bbc981	"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him. "I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator."	courage cowardice retort sarcasm threat	Edgar Rice Burroughs
136fed8	You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.	courage fear fears laughter reincarnation scared	David D. Burns
e31b4a9	You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.	courage fear fearless freedom passages-malibu quotes self-help strength	Chris Prentiss
7b1afea	Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.	courage	Beverly Jenkins
b9d68a5	Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?	achievement-attitude adversity bravery courage growth humor inspiration irony life-lessons motivation strength success wisdom	Brandi L. Bates

d2605ed

The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

cared convictions courage who-cares

Margaret Atwood

a4d3d78

"That's what it is to be a hero," Riordan says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can."

courage hero hope

Juliet Marillier

d2ce415

Would you walk away from Omelas?

courage decision-makingsion strength-and-courage strength-of-character the-ones-we-leave-behind

Ursula K. Le Guin

e4c7878

He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603)

courage explorers james-lancaster sailors spice-islands

Giles Milton

5305982

I wish I could tell you that the thought of deserting Vera never entered my mind, that my friend was in danger and I went to her rescue without hesitation. Truly, though, at that moment I hated her. I hated her for being clumsy at the worst possible time, for staring up at me with her panicked brown eyes, electing me to be her savior even though Grisha was the only one she had ever kissed. I knew that I could not live with the memory of those eyes pleading for me, and she knew it, too, and I hated her even as I jumped down from the gate, lifted her to her feet, and hauled her to the iron bars.

courage

David Benioff

8a2cdee

The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

courage death fearless god

David Benioff

1fd1fb1

The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

challenges courage existence mistakes speaking teachers teaching

Madeleine L'Engle

246c7ff

"Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder. "But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it." Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad. "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper." He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room."

courage luck mediocrity temper

W. Somerset Maugham

fa547b5

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

bravery courage fear

Lori Lansens

f3ff440

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

courage praise

Richard Matheson

6a8e9cf

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

books change courage creativity ideas revolution science

E.L. Konigsburg

0244271

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that no one will know their vulgarities; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. It affords you then an inordinate amount of self-esteem. You have the self-satisfaction of courage without the inconvenience of danger.

conventionality courage insightful

W Somerset Maugham

697e615

I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.

courage recklessness

Ben Aaronovitch

3ef8ad8

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.

courage fear

E.R. Eddison

edadba2

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.

activism courage determination hard-choices

Naomi Novik

f946fc4

.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.

cope courage death decision dignity humour life way-of-life withdraw

Mitch Albom

f062aad

"Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?"."

cool courage fear

Martha Grimes

04713e1

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.

carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers

Donald Barthelme

52d1719

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

character courage disbelief faith

Michael Marshall Smith

72d044c

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

courage rise-up

Jim Butcher

1fc80bd

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contemptuous of history. I made my life into my art and it was an unqualified success. The blaze of my immolation threw its light into every corner of the land where uncounted young men sat each in his own darkness. What would I have done in Megara!? - think what I would have missed! I awoke the imagination of the century. I banged Ruskin's and Pater's heads together, and from the moral severity of one and the aesthetic soul of the other I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, I took charge of my own myth. I dipped my staff into the comb of wild honey. I tasted forbidden sweetness and drank the stolen waters. I lived at the turning point of the world where everything was waking up new - the New Drama, the New Novel, New Journalism, New Hedonism, New Paganism, even the New Woman. Where were you when all this was happening?

courage life love

Tom Stoppard

46a8995

You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

courage inspiration will

Norton Juster

3fa885d

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

courage friends

Tad Williams

2bbc981

"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him. "I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator."

courage cowardice retort sarcasm threat

Edgar Rice Burroughs

136fed8

You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.

courage fear fears laughter reincarnation scared

David D. Burns

e31b4a9

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

courage fear fearless freedom passages-malibu quotes self-help strength

Chris Prentiss

7b1afea

Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.

courage

Beverly Jenkins

b9d68a5

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

achievement-attitude adversity bravery courage growth humor inspiration irony life-lessons motivation strength success wisdom

Brandi L. Bates