personal development on Courage

Courage is putting one foot in front of the other when all you can see is a faint outline of the future.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Despair gives courage to a coward.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without co...

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

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

A fourteenth-century definition of courage is “to speak one’s mind by telling all of one’s heart.” Courage is connecting one’s heart back to one’s mind, stitching together the separated parts of ourse...

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

The virtue of courage is about the fear of dangers of death.

Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to li...

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong ...

The English word “courage” is derived from the French coeur, which literally means “heart.” And since “heart” has traditionally (and metaphorically) been regarded as the seat of emotion, spirit, and s...

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Many, many great things have begun with a single act of courage, throughout history and today. A person steps out and makes one courageous decision and that one domino starts many other dominoes falli...

In this short excerpt written by the Christian Ethicist Stanley Hauerwas to his godson, he pontificates on the topic of courage: Usually courage is identified with dramatic and heroic acts. Though I...

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Every now and then it shows through the clouds that are moving across its face. One moment it looks like the eye of a hawk in profile. The next it looks like the eye at the top of the pyramid on a dol...

I’d grown up in a Boston suburb where people’s homes were set behind deep hedges or protected by huge yards and neighbors hardly knew each other. And they didn’t need to: nothing ever happened in my t...

Mending is an act that requires courage. To mend can be to repair a relationship, as described in the line above from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing . In this splendid play, Benedick and Be...

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intellige...