you know you're licked before you begin

Photographic pluses: not many, I was rather hurried. Nice black and white-ness?

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
US novelist (1926 - )