Echoes

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

He who is brave is free.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Grace under pressure.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.