Courage
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For Kishore, compassion, canniness, and
courage
were key, as was the ability to identify talent and understand complexity.
The third critical quality of a great leader is
courage
– or nerve, as Klaus puts it.
But her remarkable
courage
eventually paid off.
In his own quiet way, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo of Indonesia has shown similar
courage.
Of course, translating
courage
into positive change requires muscle – the influence and authority to take action – which requires an astute understanding of political realities.
Shrewdness, courage, morality, and intelligence have underpinned his effort to change the position and perception of the Roman Catholic Church in the world.
For example, while tradition prohibits the pope from endorsing homosexuality, Pope Francis had the
courage
to say: “If a person is gay and seeks out the Lord and is willing, who am I to judge that person?”
More broadly, Pope Francis has shown
courage
and wisdom in embracing a more decentralized church structure, and envisioning an inclusive church that is a “home for all.”
It requires persons of great
courage
to become judges, and strong authorities to enforce their judgments.
A Poland of suspicion, fear, and revenge is fighting a Poland of hope, courage, and dialogue.
And, more often than not, what we are witnessing is individual achievement – the deeply concentrated agility and
courage
of the downhill racer or the finely disciplined movements of the gymnast – rather than true team effort.
The world we want for our children will arrive only when we choose action over indifference,
courage
over comfort, and solidarity over division.
They must find the
courage
to make the case for a humane migration policy.
Only if one musters the
courage
to envision the bomber and the lunchbox at the same time is it possible to comprehend the tragic vision of history that Hiroshima -- like other episodes that have seared our modern conscience -- most clearly represents.
As he put it, “We should have the
courage
to take risks when they are thoughtful risks….We must forgive mistakes which have been made because someone was trying to act aggressively in the company’s interest.”
Seehofer is bad news for Germany, which is in greater need of dynamism, openness, and
courage
than any other European country.
This display of astonishing
courage
and determination to get an education should be an inspiration for us all in the fight against discrimination.
The country is in desperate need of leadership with the
courage
to be candid with voters, by explaining to them clearly and soberly that the UK can no longer solve its problems alone.
The British electorate would be better served if their politicians had the
courage
to serve up some uncomfortable truths – or at least not to deal in dangerous deceit.
But Gorbachev did not have the
courage
to hold national presidential elections.
To reward their
courage
with betrayal mocks everything that the West believes about itself.
Their
courage
is paving the way for others to speak out about their own experiences.
But it will require
courage
to acknowledge what is occurring before our eyes, rather than continue to grasp at the chimera of a consolidated Iraqi state.
Serbian President Boris Tadic deserves great credit for this action, especially since his good friend Zoran Djindjic, then prime minister of Serbia, was assassinated in 2003 as a direct result of his
courage
in arresting Milosevic and sending him to The Hague in 2001.
State-building in Lebanon will require strong UN and EU support, and the
courage
to curb Hezbollah’s influence.
Above all, Mikhail Gorbachev will remain the man who had the vision and the
courage
not to oppose the course of history.
The German novelistThomas Mann was deeply opposed to such deliberate isolation on the part ofwriters, posing instead the claims that society makes upon art: “the
courage
torecognize and express – that is the quality that makes literature.”
Berlusconi's performance in government is a combination of good intuition--for instance the early attempt to reform Italian pensions in 1994--and poor implementation, most likely because of a lack of courage, as surprising as that seems.
Without Gorbachev and his singular courage, the stream of events across Europe during fall of 1989 never would have been possible.
When faced with the choice of leaving the tanks in their barracks or calling them out onto the streets, he opted for a peace and later accepted the new reality that people in East Germany had created with so much
courage.
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