“There’s an interesting story about Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War he signed an order transferring certain regiments, but Secretary of… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s ahead of us. All I can tell you is, not even courage will help.” “Are you reading Alma Mahler again?” “No.”… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face;… — Charlene Costanzo Copy Share Image
“If he has the courage to unearth his dreams, he then faces a second obstacle: love. He now knows what he desires… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, or unsatisfied at barely getting… — Lucas Scott Copy Share Image
“He was training people to become “sacred warriors”—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
To be a survivorfirst you must bleed. You bleed all that was inside of you: the pain, the memories, the fear, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
“The Americans had a wide range of feelings about it, but there is no question about their bravery and patriotism. In the… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And its these things Id believe in, even… — Alex Copy Share Image
“It takes no courage to criticize. But it takes great courage to do what God tells you to do while loud voices… — Tony Warrick Copy Share Image
“[F]or three-quarters of an hour we sat in silence, and the voice of Mr. Gruffydd, wherever he was, filled us again with… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to… — Paranjay Malkan Copy Share Image
“Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Be bold but be smart. Don't be afraid to fail or intimidated by the possibility of criticism or ridicule in pursuing your… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Humor to me, Heaven help me, takes in many things. There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never… — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
I wish those words I said to you didn't come out. the courage it took me to open my chest an dgrab… — Megan Sartin Copy Share Image
“perhaps that’s what it’s for – self-confidence and courage and energy and peace – perhaps it’s to be used in the world.… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier—it takes real courage to claim the time and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Like the salmon; humans spend their whole existence dealing with the currents of life Some waters are smooth, and some a torrent… — Ezell Thompson Copy Share Image
It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image