“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that thing which you think you cannot do.” is an inspirational quote given by Eleanor Roosevelt.
The value I have chosen is courage. Mental or moral strength to venture is how it is defined but I understand it as when you perform an act which you are scared or uncomfortable to do. The word courage comes from the French word heart or coeur, as in when you have the heart to do something.
“Do you have the courage to follow your heart?” As I have surfed the web I have found examples where the word courage has been used, as in the previous quote. I found websites where the word was used for having courage to overcome tough disabilities (courage.org), to companies “Building courage to lift business performance” (courageinstitute.org). Maybe the single greatest quote I have found out of my list is “In my experience, the single greatest barrier to implementing a succession strategy is courage.” As posted in summitadvisory.org. And another quote that complements this past quote perfectly is one about soldiers. “Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers.” And it re-enforces the stereotype about great hero’s performing great courageous acts.
Referring back to when I stated that courage is having mental or moral strength we can tie it in with the novel “The Giver”. Jonas has to have mental strength to continue with his training and taking in all of the village’s worst and painful memories. Jonas also had to have moral strength to escape the village in order to save the life of Gabriel.
With the experience with Jonas and with the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt we all should have courage to face our greatest fears even if it’s mental or if it’s moral.
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