“ Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. William Faulkner
“ I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent… Audre Lorde
“ Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. Margaret Truman
“ There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live. John F. Kennedy
“ I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Leon Blum
“ Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? T. S. Eliot
“ The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later. Confucius
“ Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. Samuel Johnson
“ A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. Tennessee Williams
“ O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact. Henry David Thoreau