“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.”
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
