Paper Tigers
There will be many times in your life that adversity stares you in the face, takes a step toward you, and pushes you to your knees. Will you let it keep you down? Will you suffer from the " quitter's disease" as Charlie "Tremendous" Jones calls it? Bill Hybels , in his book Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise , encourages us to break through those quitting points by enlightening us to the fact that those quitting points are "made of tissue, not brick." Per Hybels , "Every time you break through a quitting point, you prove to yourself that quitting points are not as solid as some people think they are." Amelia Earhart put it yet another way. For her the quitting points, or the fears and difficulties of life that put our world at a standstill, are merely "paper tigers." According to Ms. Earhart: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Th...