Courage in Leadership

MUS Basketball talk

Why is the charge to be strong and courageous giving so many times in scripture?

What is the importance of Courage in leadership and in Team sports?

Courage gives confidence

courage curbs complications

courage combats adversity

Winston Churchill Quote

The Preacher’s Notebook: The Collected Quotes, Illustrations, and Prayers of John Stott Spiritual Battles

Spiritual Battles

Churchill on Never Giving Up

Themes: Conflict; Spiritual Warfare; Victory and Defeat

In his book The Turn of the Tide, Arthur Bryant writes of Sir Winston Churchill:

• “His whole career had been an essay in fighting back from disaster. ‘You ask,’ he said when the German armies were driving through the broken lines of France, ‘what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terrors, victory, however long and hard the road may be’ ” (p. 23).

• “The Prime Minister’s virtues as a war leader were immense. The higher the tide of trouble rose, the higher rose his courage. His nerves never failed and the worst of disasters left his sleep and appetite unimpaired.… He would never take No for an answer … ‘War,’ he wrote, ‘is a constant struggle and must be waged from day to day’ ” (p. 25).

• “And again, ‘Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.… Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy’ ” (p. 157).

SOURCE: Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide (Doubleday, 1957).

Find one on from an African American perspective on courage.

“Excellence overcomes obstacles, Excellence was our mantra” Roscoe Brown

he says this in the face of adversity because of this black group of fighter pilots.

Tuskegee Airmen guiding principles: Aim High, Believe in Yourself, Use Your Brain, Be Ready to Go, Never Quit and Expect to Win.”