1. Teen Success Ideas to Move Your Mind by Beatrice J. Elye
Slide Show of Significant Excerpts
for School Success
Compiled and arranged by Carolyn Harrell
Chapter 19
pages The Landscape of Courage

2. Resilience over Rocky Terrain
Each day takes courage
Life inevitably will contain
moments of fear and
treacherous paths…

3. Courage is not limited to occasional feats of dramatic and deliberate public risks such as saving lives.

4. Courage can be simpler and quieter; internal in nature.
Standing up for what you believe in if it goes against public opinion
Admit mistakes and trying again
Learning something new after being comfortable with the old way
It’s stepping out into the unknown, often alone, believing you can weather the consequences.

5. But knowing what courage is does not automatically make one courageous just as reading about chocolate is not the same thing as tasting it.
Every part of daily existence has some opportunity to be brave, take chances, and extend yourself.
If you want to lead a courageous life, look within yourself and examine your personal beliefs.
Act in a courageous way, and know how to handle your fears.
Write a brief account of the most courageous act that you have ever witnessed or heard or read about. How did it make you feel?

6. Summary Courage is essential to thoughtful daily living.
Collective acts of courage have made civilization possible—even for the cowardly.
The habit of courage can be internally programmed.
Summary

7. Words of Wisdom
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done. -Mary Frances Berry
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. -Erica Jong
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
-Ruth Gordon
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Edward V. Rickenbacker
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. -Jonas Salk, M. D.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? -Frank Sailly
…There is more security n the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as danger to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. -Margaret Chase Smith
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. -Robert G. Ingersoll
It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain