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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway
Beauty, Courage, Honesty

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Positive, Courage
When asked what he meant by 'guts' in an interview with Dorothy Parker: 'New Yorker' 30 November 1929

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Imagination, Cowardice
"A Farewell to Arms".

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Strong, People
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Time, Fighting
"Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn, 1946.

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