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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The read more
Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
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.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
