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

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.

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

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

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 not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

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 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 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 not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear.
Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding
the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those
things in balance

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