Les Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You're gonna get your butt kicked.
You're laying on the mat gasping and you don't know what you're going to do.
You're a bit perplexed.
Maybe it's with your kids, maybe with your marriage, maybe with your health, maybe some other arena of life.
Maybe you received some news recently that just sort of knocked the wind out of you.
You didn't see it coming and you feel like you've been knocked down.
We have been knocked to the ground, but we're not destroyed.
I think courage is the quintessential trait that leads to everything else.
You have to first have courage.
You have to have courage to quit your job.
You have to have courage to get rejected.
If you don't first have courage, nothing else follows.
Again, it's not are you courageous or not?
It's how courageous are you?
It's not a binary.
I have courage because I have done things that have required it.
I know what it is to question yourself.
Can I do this?
I know what it is to doubt yourself.
You ain't gonna know what to do.