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.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others read more

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.