Courage Turns Challenges Into Opportunities

Vince Lombardi (football coach) talks about challenges.  We all have challenges in our lives.  What I see as the difference in the outcome of the challenge is how we handle it going in.  You get to make a choice every time something comes up and seems out of your control.  These challenges build courage and character, teaching us about ourselves, others, and the the world around us.  There is always more than one solution to anything you face, always, even if you don’t see it right away.  Be open to possibilities.  Reach deep inside and use courage to embrace any challenge.  There is not a single person who rose to greatness, that did not have challenges.  Some people let a challenge defeat them, some rise to great heights.  What will you do?

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Vince Lombardi

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Gratitude @ Living In Courage

Gratitude is such a big part of our receiving. This wonderful quote reminded me that when we do our own personal gardening of the soul by pulling weeds of negativity and planting seeds of positivity, we become charming gardeners.  Have a wonderful week and I am grateful to you who visit me here at Living in Courage.

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust

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Stay Young - General Douglas MacArthur

My friend John Maguire sent me this quote on staying young. Youth lives inside and never fades in the young at heart. Every cell of our body holds the perfection and memory of youth. Life is a stage for children, where imagination and creativity hold each one enthralled, waiting for the next moment of discovery. There is a small child in each of us that has much to teach.

Youth at any age is a gift to combine perfectly with wisdom that is gained through the passing years. Never ever grow old or out of touch with the perfection and beauty you are. Now come outside and play with all the world as your stage, where you direct, create, design and make choices that bring the majesty of life to your doorstep.

Stay Young:

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or seventeen there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what’s next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite, so long you are young.

General Douglas MacArthur

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Ultimate Distinction - Quote by Charles Kendall Adams

Everyone wants success, to be distinguished as authentic. I think it is easier for us to give up on starting many things, because we get so excited to start something and then look to the right, there is something to start, look to the left, oh wow, there is a new thing to start. Overwhelm slides around and a great idea is forgotten. The wisest choice is to pick one thing. Stay with it until it is a success - in any way that looks to you. Be determined, use courage to go the extra mile, over and above the average bear. Be the example of what you want to reflect to the world. Charles Kendall Adams talks about success in this quote:

“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

Charles Kendall Adams

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George E. Allen Quote on Success

George E. Allen - Publisher and Author said:

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.”

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Courage Doesn’t Always Roar

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
~~~ Famous Quote about courage by Mary Anne Radmacher

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Maya Angelou - Poet and Historian

Maya Angelou was inducted into the Academy of Achievement, which is a Museum of Living History, in 1990 as a Poet and Historian in Washington D.C.  Her words and video’s contain powerful messages of equality and love for all.

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Maya Angelou Quote

Great quote by Maya Angelou:

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Get out there and make someone feel better. In doing this you will feel better too. Maya Angelou is a woman that has taken adversity in the extreme and turned it into Courage for all the world to see and feel.

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Quotes by Debra Oakland at Living in Courage Online

“Push away everything that chips at your miracle”

~~~ Debra Oakland

Support excellence, genius, the spiritual nature, the soul, to find extreme divine and perfect expression as you deserve it.

~~~ Debra Oakland

Through ignorance and darkness, the human race has imposed upon itself activities believed to be impossible. Through truth and light, nothing is impossible.

~~~ Debra Oakland

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Ray Bradbury Quote

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall” - Ray Bradbury

Nothing in your life will change unless you take the first step over the ledge and jump. I say try it, you might just find you like it.  It may not be easy at first, but you will put the wheels of change into motion.  Life is a journey.  When you stop, stand still and do not take any action toward your desires, nothing happens.  Action must be taken and like Ray Bradbury says, your wings will unfold as you fall.  I would like to say that your wings unfold as you fly. Choose a destination, your life will take you there when you are in action.  Make sure to take the time to be quiet and grateful at some time each day.  Simple plan. Does it take courage? Yes. Are there results? Yes. It can lead to a very happy life.

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