You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.

Courage in a strategic moment can change the playing field dramatically.

As a next generation leader you already possess the talent and intuition necessary to lead. But chances are it is your courage that will establish you as a leader in the minds of others. To put it in perspective, try to identify a leader worth following who didn't pop up on the public radar screen as a result of a decision or action that required courage.

It is amazing what can be accomplished when we wait on God to lead us out. It is equally amazing the mess we can make of things when we charge out on our own.

Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.