Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties read more

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how read more

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be read more

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
That the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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.

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.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the read more

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.