Secrets for Building Courage

1. Act as if you are courageous. This makes you a bit braver, as if one part of you has been challenged and wishes to show it is not wholly afraid.

2. Pause to reflect that others have had to face great discouragements and great obstacles and have overcome them. And what others have done, surely you can do.

3. Remember that your life forces move in a sort of rhythm. If you feel depressed and without power to face life, you may be at the bottom of the trough. If you keep up your courage, you will swing out of it, using the very forces that at the moment are sucking you down.

4. Remember you feel more defeated and downcast at night than during daylight hours. Courage comes with the sun.

5. Courage is the measure of a big soul. Try to measure up.

-Dale Carnegie