Courage

/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
2. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
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.
4. (obsolete) To encourage.

Example Sentences

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.

He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.

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

2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

“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.”

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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Word Forms

• courages
• couraging
• couraged

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