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Step out of the crowd !
ourage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it. Courage is the mark of the man. Courage is the product of real manhood and womanhood.
We are either leaders or we are followers. We either think for ourselves, or we let others do our thinking for us. Most of us value public approval so much that we fail to execute and display the courage of our convictions. Instead of being mere followers, we should constantly strive towards being the leader. The fear of what others might think should always be abandoned in favour of what you know to be is the right. You, not your neighbour, are the master of your own fate.
Lincoln is remembered principally because of his courage. This was, above all else, his shining star.
It is the man of conviction, the courageous soul, that believes and succeeds.
The world is crying out for men and women to display their real manhood and womanhood, to bring out the best that is in them, to step out of the crowd, to quit living the sheepish sort of lives that they are, to become believers in themselves instead of fearers of their possibilities, to become leaders and to make their mark upon the world.
Believe in courage. No generation has ever stood in greater need of it than ours. Dickens once said : 'Life is given to us on the understanding that we defend it to the last.' It is not our lives alone we must defend today, but every value that to us makes life worth living.
-0. G. Mandino
