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Courage is Calling:
…there is no courage without bad odds, without a willingness to risk losing – the job, the game, the deal, your life. If it was a sure thing, what would be brave about it?
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Courage is Calling:
You have to realize that you are not average. You never have been. You are one of one. You have always had what it took to defy the odds.
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Courage is Calling:
If we only did what we were sure of, if we only proceeded when things were favorable, then history would never be made.
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Courage is Calling:
The opposite of fear is love. Love for one another. Love for ideas. Love for your country. Love for the vulnerable and the weak. Love for the next generation. Love for all.
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Courage is Calling:
What we’re willing to give – that full measure of our devotion, to the effort, to a stranger, to what must be done – that’s what takes us higher.
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Courage is Calling:
A confrontation that doesn’t need to happen, shouldn’t happen.
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Courage is Calling:
Suffering, discomfort, worry – these things take courage to endure. But wisdom and compassion obligate us not just to avoid them when unnecessary but to try to protect others from them too.
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Courage is Calling:
Few leaders are every perfectly in sync with their times -they’re usually ahead of them. Which is going to mean looking around and finding that they stand alone.
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Courage is Calling:
Eventually, inevitably, if you are an independent, visionary, or principles person, you will find yourself alienated… You can let this break you, or you can let it form you…
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Courage is Calling:
Remember: Between mountains lies the valley… Either way, you’ll need to cross it. You’ll need patience and endurance and most of all love.
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