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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
Sep 10, 2025
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
If you don't risk anything you risk everything
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.