I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with read more

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

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.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.
(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.
(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

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.