“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

“The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.”

“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“At that, I understood for sure I must not lose her, for the earth is not the earth without some light to see it by, and she was mine.”

“Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.”

“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”