Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Courage is the ability to be able to cope with the disappointment of not getting what we desire, and yet, move on in life.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

Courage is honest commitment to noble ideals. The opposite of courage is not, as some argue, being afraid. It’s apathy. It’s disenchantment. It’s despair. It’s throwing up your hands and saying, “What’s the point anyway?

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.