Courage and Strength

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

 

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playingabout his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

 

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Theirs not to make reply,

 

Was there a man dismay’d?

 

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off?

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.