Courage is the greatest of all virtues, for without it there are no other virtues…. Anyone can be brave for five minutes. You will not only be braver than the men you lead; you will be brave for longer.
As a Leader, you will go on being brave when others falter; brave not only in danger, but brave in hardship, in loneliness and, perhaps most difficult of all, in those long periods of inactivity, of boredom that come at times to all soldiers. In failure, too, you will show your courage.
We can all be brave when we are ...
