Courage

Courage You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Amelia Earhart dreamed of flying a plane and then became a pilot at a time when women didn’t fly.

Rosa Parks displayed courage when she was arrested for failing to move to the back of the bus.

Gandhi acted with courage to change a nation.

Imagine surviving a plane crash and finding yourself alone …

… in the Canadian wilderness …

… stuck by porcupine quills.

Imagine the courage it took the Vietnamese to flee their country …

… in small boats, which were …

… sometimes turned away from a new land.

Imagine being Jewish during World War II …

… taken from your family to live in fear in concentration camps. It took courage to survive.

It also took courage for a diplomat to disobey the orders of his government and help …

… thousands of Jewish people obtain visas so that they could leave Lithuania.

Sugihara’s honor was finally restored by Japan in the early 1990’s. His widow accepted for him.

Imagine the courage it takes to climb the highest mountains in the world …

Twenty-four climbers had died trying to scale Everest, but Hillary and Norgay succeeded.

Would you have the courage to stop a train if you knew it was approaching a collapsed bridge?

Imagine being the youngest person to sail alone across the Pacific Ocean and being by yourself for 54 days.

To succeed you must approach challenges with hard work, determination and courage.