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“But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.”

Book:Shackleton's Stowaway

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“There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you’ve gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.”

Bravery

Author:Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

“It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.”

Faith Acceptance Bravery Relief

Book:The Instructions

Source: The Instructions

“What is it then? Why do you hesitate? Why do you relish living like a coward? Why cannot you be bold and keen to start?”

Bravery Cowardice Live Your Life Begin

Book:The Divine Comedy by Dante

Source: The Divine Comedy by Dante

“What is it that you don't think you can do? What do you think is too big for you? Or too scary, or too risky? Sometimes God whispers it, and sometimes, he shouts it. Whatever the volume, I bet he's always using the same three words with us: Be Not Afraid.”

Courage Bravery Fearlessness

Book:Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

Source: Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

“Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.”

Bravery Preparation Honour Boldness

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Always afraid, never a coward”

Bravery

Book:The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

Source: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

“There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.”

Fear Courage Bravery Defense Coward Fight Animals Defend Self Defence Fight Or Flight

Book:The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Source: The Vicomte de Bragelonne

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