A Call for Courage
By Bryan Curtis
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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Whether you are about to begin a new job, undergo surgery, or ask your boss for a raise, possessing courage will help you face these battles. A Call for Courage contains more than 175 quotes from the presidents of the United States on the subject of courage.
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to the job at hand." - Harry Truman
"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity." - Jimmy Carter
A Call for Courage is a wonderful gift for anyone facing a challenge - be it fear of war or simply moving away from home.
Bryan Curtis
Bryan Curtis is an author and the president of Dance Floor Books. He is the author/coauthor and editor of more than 25 books, including My South, My Southern Food, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life, Classic Wisdom for the Professional Life, and the popular GentleManners series.
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A Call for Courage - Bryan Curtis
PREFACE
When people think about the need for courage, images that may come to mind are a soldier going off into battle or a firefighter entering a burning building—and obviously courage is necessary at those times. But even if you never face these hazardous situations, there will be times in your life when courage is needed. This may be when you get behind the wheel of a car for the first time, when you are going on a job interview, or when you must face surgery.
Throughout our history, our presidents have called on Americans to have courage and have praised those who showed it under remarkable circumstances.
Andrew Jackson encouraged a nation not to give in to a lack of confidence when he said, Never take counsel of your fears.
And Franklin D. Roosevelt advised, When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
These messages can be applied to many circumstances in anyone’s life—from battling an illness to a business crisis.
Ronald Reagan paid tribute to the brave men and women who lost their lives on the space shuttle Challenger when he said, We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them—this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’
With these words, he not only praised the courage of those astronauts, but also called on our nation to honor those heroes while we grieved.
I hope you will find something in this book that will help you bolster your courage—whether it is the courage needed to meet challenges in your personal or professional life, or to make sacrifices for the benefit of others and your nation.
I also hope you take a moment to think about all the heroes who have never taken counsel of their fears—and the great nation we enjoy as a result.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
—HARRY S. TRUMAN
When written in Chinese, the word crisis
is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
—JOHN F. KENNEDY
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and