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 the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, read more

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,
Sleep to wake.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent read more

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone read more

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

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

It is curious - 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.

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