Sentences with phrase «own kind of courage»

Perhaps this kind of courage should be the very thing that emboldens us to speak, far more than a computer keyboard ever could.

That to me indicates a kind of courage.

Even though the cosmic process is hopeless, the absurdity of the universe as a whole provides each of us with the opportunity to exercise a kind of courage to create our own meanings and values that would be impossible if we thought, with religion, that the universe were itself inherently purposeful.

It takes a certain kind of courage to let people watch you change, to see you progress, and even to observe you publicly struggle with your theology.

At the same time, the kind of courage he invoked was increasingly aggressive.

To remember this today and to say it aloud requires its own kind of courage.

He wistfully concludes that civic courage belongs among the lesser kinds of courage, although it is first among them «since it most closely resembles true courage.»

The kind of courage involved in living above the average is indispensable to great character.

he still applies himself really well and still looks to score, still looks to get a chance and with that kind of courage he will eventually become a regular goalscorer.

«But that drop doesn't concern us because he still applies himself really well and still looks to score, still looks to get a chance and with that kind of courage he will eventually become a regular goalscorer.

«Melissa's got that kind of endurance, that kind of courage, that kind of staying power... Why?

The previous administration, according to him, could not summon that kind of courage adding that they intentionally use that to plunge the economy of this country to where we are today.

If Barack Obama's successor were to commit the nation, in the spring of 2017, with the same kind of courage and determination that JFK did in 1961, we could be on Mars before the end of his or her second term.

I love films that portray this kind of courage and bravery.

These are modest, identifiable dreams, and there is a plain kind of courage and fiber in the pursuit of them.

And I feel like the film has an incredible message about love, and tolerance, and having the kind of courage to be who you are against adversity.

The kind of courage that inspires innovation and eventually makes your company's culture engaging.

The 4C changes direction quicker than Donald Trump's border policy and the unity between car and driver is special... but it takes a certain kind of courage to push this car to its limit, especially on bumpy road.

Discuss how trust requires a kind of courage that humans find difficult to muster.

This year's Ten Outstanding Books were chosen for exemplifying this kind of courage, creativity, and independent spirit.

As author Shauna Niequist describes in her book Cold Tangerines, it takes a kind of courage to choose the genre of your own story: When you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is.

His second novel, Some Kind of Courage, was published in January 2016, and received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Booklist.

It takes passion, drive, and a special kind of courage to share your vision with the world.

The Hard Kind of Courage: Gordon Parks and the Photographers of the Civil Rights Era September 16 - December 16, 2012

It takes a special kind of courage for a famous artist to drag 40 - year - old apprentice pieces out of the attic and make an exhibition of them.

There's nothing to be done but to go on restating the importance of this kind of courage, and to try to make sure that these oppressed individuals — Ai Weiwei, the members of Pussy Riot, Hamza Kashgari — are seen for what they are: men and women standing on the front line of liberty.»

«These two shows demonstrate two kinds of courage from their mature creators: the not - so - innocent experimenting of the girl child and the fearless recognition of the older woman who has actually lived.

It takes a certain kind of courage for a post-Post-Minimalist artist, born in 1971, to make such clearly articulated forms.

Any effort that demonstrates this kind of ingenuity, creativity, passion and leadership for leaving this planet a better place, man oh man, whether young people, middle aged or those of the great golden years, we should all be supportive of this kind of courage, leadership and individuality.

However, no MPP thought there were problems, or no MPP had the latter kind of courage, one or the other.

These boards, none of these boards in Silicon Valley — and by the way, across the country, really, come on — I just don't expect any kind of courage from any of them.

Not exact matches

This kind of awareness and emotional intelligence is what gives people the courage to do crazy but brilliant things — like leave their well - paying job and start an online bookstore.

A first - of - its - kind event - presented by HBO, Chase and Starbucks - brought musical talent, celebrities and millions of Americans together to honor the courage and sacrifice of veterans, active duty service members and their families.

As those vulnerable moments turned into long vulnerable months, extended hospital stays with tubes, pokes, mysterious infections, and all kinds of unknowns, I witnessed first - hand Sofia's courage in the midst of her situation.

(It does not seem to me that it takes courage to rebel, only a kind of willful need to self - destruct.)

it means being vulnerable, it takes courage and this side of heaven means facing all kinds of difficulty discomfort and harm.

These kinds of narratives feed our imagination and give us energy and courage.

In his words: «Perhaps the encounter with the transpersonal existence of the Buddhist, the recognition of the serenity and strength it embodies, the experience of Buddhist meditation, and the study of Buddhist philosophy will give us the courage to venture into that kind of radical love which can carry us into a postpersonal form of Christian existence» (Cobb 1975, 220).

Only when people take courage to face fear, heal from past hurts, as as considerate of others as self, accepting differences where they are debatable and are motivated by love then shall we see less of this kind of thing.

Both the pathos and the courage of many such children, suffering appalling handicaps and sometimes with the certain knowledge of imminent death, was for me a kind of trek with Job.

Hereâ $ ™ s some of the things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity; good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis wrote about.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

And we of the faith will have to have the courage to do what Elijah did, that is, fling the epithet back in the accusers» teeth (12): It is not I who have troubled Israel, but you and your father's house, you and your kind, you and your acquisitive systems.

For we are all imitators: other brave sheriffs would follow; to be a dauntless sheriff would come to be recognized as the correct and only the dreaded disapproval would fall to the share of the other kind; courage in this office would become custom, the absence of it a dishonor, just as courage presently replaces the timidlty of the new soldier; then the mobs and the lynchings would disappear, and --

It takes a lot of courage to admit you no longer believe and a different kind of faith, faith in oneself to finally take the first step toward true freedom.

When a person or group is dominated by a sense of impending loss, the resulting fear demands a kind of absolutizing of what already exists, and it dispels any courage for looking to ideals beyond the present imperfect situation.

Objectivists should at least have the courage to say they're either Satanists or Atheists... I might even have a grudging respect for that kind of declaration.

To accept our freedom means to live with a certain kind of anxiety, and this requires a courage that we do not always have.

As it happens, I am no devotee of school prayer, on the ground that it is a distraction, a kind of trivializing surrogacy for truly weighty issues this society must find the courage to face and deal with.

each word chosen with the kind of care and courage that made me recognize that moment as a precious gift.