"These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway."

Courage, Death, Choice, Life

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"These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway."

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"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Courage, Overcome, Uncertainties, Life

"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Risk, Belief, Skeptics, Determination

"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Courage, Fear, Respect, Human, Emotion

"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Courage, Fear, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Courage, Rebellion, Rules, Change, Power

"A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Storm, Ship, Mighty, Strength

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Courage, Bravery, Doubt, Strength

"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Courage, Fear, Wonder, Truth

Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

Community, Belonging, Identity, Relationship

"You were baptized?""My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in."

Religion, Faith, Family, Identity

"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."

Motivational, Motivation, Admiration, Contempt, Wonder

"Because human nature never changes."

Philosophy, Behavior, Constancy, Truth, Behavior

"It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees-knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying."

Religion, Bible, Life, Knowledge, Death

"It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around."

Motivation, Strength, Mind, Willpower, Discipline

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."

Success, Effort, Failure, Responsibility

"I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind."

Psychology, Memory, Identity, Mind, Strength

"My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you."

Politics, Government, Power, Frustration, Observation

"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment."

Strategy, Affection, Protection, Loyalty