Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE QUALITY OF COURAGE
In a review of 3,300 studies of leadership conducted by James
McPherson over the years, he found a common denominator.
It was the quality of courage. Winston Churchill once said,
“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it,
all others depend.”
You have heard it said that the road to hell is paved with good
intentions. The world is full of people with high and lofty goals and
ambitions, but there are very few people who have the courage, the
discipline, and the willpower to carry them out.
The best part of practicing the quality of courage is that each
time you behave courageously, you feel stronger and better about
yourself. Your self-esteem increases and you like yourself more. You
feel more confident and competent.You feel happier inside.
In contrast, each time you compromise yourself in the area of
courage your self-esteem goes down. You feel weaker and less com-
petent.You don’t like or respect yourself as much.