“ What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable. Louise Nevelson
“ Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain. Diane de Poitiers
“ At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. Edwin H. Chapin
“ We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do. Richard L. Evans
“ Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again. John Dryden
“ I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted… Kenneth Koch
“ We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to d… Theodore Roosevelt
“ May He give usall the courage that we needto go the way He shepherds us.That when He callswe may go unfrightened. If He bids us come to Himacross the waters,that unfrightened we may go. And if He bids… Bede Jarrett
“ Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer. Auliq Ice
“ It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. Gitty Daneshvari
“ If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal. Mavis Leno
“ Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions doubl… Walter Scott
