"Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."― Dean Koontz Topic(s): CourageMore From Dean Koontz"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.""What we do as a society is seek simple answers.""There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him."More In Courage"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."― Denis Waitley"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."― C. S. Lewis"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."― Albert Claude