Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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."
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.