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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man read more
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of read more
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear read more
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
