On Courage

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What is courage? How do you differentiate between courage, bravery and sheer recklessness?

Courage is defined as the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain without fear. It is also bravery, although we tend to think of bravery in terms of heroic deeds. Giving thought to an act and carrying it out despite knowing the risk and danger involved is courage, is bravery. But to rush into things without thinking, although some might call it courage or bravery, it is actually sheer recklessness.

Of course there are times when we do not have time on our side, when we do not have time to think things through, when we are moved to action because of the urgency of the situation. But that is another story.

The truth is, we can never be sure of our courage, until the real test present itself, until we have faced danger. One thing is certain though, the more courageous acts we do, the more courageous we become.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. - Jean Paul Richter

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. - Dianne de Poitiers

Courage is being scared to death, and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice Mackenzie Swaim

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. - Unknown

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

True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone. - Richard Edgely

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred Whitehead

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. - John Petit-Senn

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