courage

Forms

1.The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
2.The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
3.The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.
- Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
- I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

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From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”).

Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root.