I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. 670
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. 1.12K
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That’s what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. 673
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. 709
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. 760
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. 675
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. 2.57K
