Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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

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

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

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

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

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.