Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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 the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble read more
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
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.]
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
