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.

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

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

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;

 

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.

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.

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

 

Was there a man dismay’d?

 

Theirs not to make reply,

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

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

 

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.