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The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
You can't test courage cautiously.
You can't test courage cautiously.
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love read more
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not read more
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you read more
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how read more
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected read more
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow
citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
[Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.]
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999.
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999.
