Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are you going to give?" "No," said Pooh. "That would not be a good plan."
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
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."
A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.'