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Courage
by Monte Wilson

It often takes courage to say no to an unethical but very profitable opportunity. It takes courage to tell your boss what he or she will not enjoy hearing. It takes courage to take off on a direction that you have faith will lead to success while everyone around you is counseling you to take another route. It takes courage to invest your resources – time, money and energy – in a vision that may not be realized for years to come. It takes courage to initiate, to act decisively when everyone else around you is hanging back.

• Courage is not the absence of fear: it is doing the right thing in the right way in spite of your fears.
• Courage is not foolishness: courage considers the long-term cost of passivity and of action and then acts accordingly.
• Courage is not arrogance: courage is not about exalting self, but about exalting the mission, the cause and the values one holds sacred

Courageous people are self-motivated and self-governing. In other words, they do not need to be told to “get started” or to take responsibility and be accountable. They have the fortitude to do what must be done and to gladly accept the risks.