As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It read more

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties read more

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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.