J. K. Rowling on Courage

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all–in which case, you fail by default. J. K. Rowling, from here and here This comes from Rowling’s commencement address at Harvard University in 2008. She doesn’t specifically mention courage, but it’s […]

Churchill On Courage

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill    I don’t usually consider myself a man of courage. I’m more often the man who watches others, wishing I had their courage, berating myself over everything I could accomplish if I were just brave […]