Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
"You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is."
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.