Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

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.

In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will read more

In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; read more

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.