Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. read more

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

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.

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 going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.