Courage and Strength

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

This day is called the feast of Crispian:

 

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

In this world we run the risk of having tochoose between being either the anvil or thehammer.

The victorious army only enters battle afterhaving first won the victory, while the defeatedarmy only seeks victory after having firstentered the fray.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! J. R. R.

That which we are, we are;

 

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

 

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

 

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R.

 

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Does it matter?—losing your sight? …

Why, Tom, we’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people—we go on.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it .

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. J. R. R.

 

Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason’s child; it springs from deeper strata.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is . . . for us humans.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.