Definition of Courage

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Courage

The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.

Heart; inclination; desire; will.

That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.

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Courage Quotations

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson

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 courage.
Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Courage Translations

courage in Afrikaans is moed, dapperheid, durf
courage in Danish is mod
courage in Dutch is dapperheid, moed, durf, lef
courage in French is courage
courage in Italian is fibra
courage in Latin is animus, fortitudo, ferocitas, virtus, audentia
courage in Norwegian is mot
courage in Portuguese is coragem
courage in Spanish is valor
courage in Swedish is kurage, mod

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