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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And read more
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which read more
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
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.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a read more
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man read more
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
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.