"The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."  ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

"Remember that if the opportunities for great needs should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day.  The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."  ~ Frederick Wm. Faber

"The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth or courage." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This I resolved on ~ to run, when I can, to go, when I cannot run; and to creep, when I cannot go."  ~ John Bunyan

~ COURAGE, A Little Book of Brave Thoughts, Edited by Harold Whaley, Peter Pauper Press, 1971.