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."
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.'
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.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.