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Christ's Courageous Example

During World War I, a British commander was preparing to lead his soldiers back to battle. They'd been on furlough, and it was a cold, rainy, muddy ...


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It Is Courage That Counts

Success is never final; failure is never fatal; it is courage that counts.


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The Guts to Lead

Scott Turow begins his novel Presumed Innocent with the words of a prosecuting attorney named Rusty. Rusty is explaining his approach to the jury when ...


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Authority Takes Courage

The great need for anyone in authority is courage.


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Condemned Neutrality

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.


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Tough Choices

On July 20, 1993, while cutting down oaks in a Pennsylvania forest, Don Wyman got his leg pinned beneath a fallen tree. No one could hear his yells for ...


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Lose Courage, Lose All

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.


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The Secret of Carl Lewis

After winning the gold medal for the long jump in the 1996 Olympic games, Carl Lewis was asked by Bryant Gumbel on The Today Show: "You have competed ...


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Climbing El Capitan with a Little Help

In the summer of 1989, Mark Wellman, a paraplegic, gained national recognition by climbing the sheer granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. ...


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The Credit Goes to the One Who Tries

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit ...


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