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.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.

It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of read more

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.