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

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 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 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 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 isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.

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 the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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