Courage

Courage is the virtue of persevering in a good course of action despite one's fears
- "In premodern times, the courage of a leader often had to be physical. In the last 500 years it is more often moral. Moral courage is the ability to do what's right even when it is deeply unpopular, even dangerous. Courage is only found where there is the genuine possibility of loss -- loss of friends, reputation, status, power, possessions or, at the extremes, freedom or life." [1]
- "... when you have the courage to stand up for what is right, it gives other people courage, and if they know they are not going to be standing alone, when they see you standing up, others will take courage and join you."[2]
Contents
Building courage
See also: Self-awareness and Self-regulation and Fear and Confidence and Self-efficacy and Risk and Risk management and Antifragility and Social networking and Social influence and and Visualization (psychology) and Self-talk and Positive thinking and Optimism and Growth mindset and Comfort zone
"To build courage, you can: identify your fears, embrace them as a natural part of the process, take small, calculated risks, surround yourself with supportive people, practice self-belief by visualizing yourself as courageous, and learn to see failure as a learning opportunity; essentially, facing your fears head-on while acknowledging that discomfort is a normal part of growth."[3]
Articles on building courage:
- Six Ways to Find Your Courage During Challenging Times, Greater Good Magazine
- 7 Ways to Feel More Courageous, VeryWellMind.com
Videos:
Sermons on courage
- Sermons on courage - playlist, Video playlist
- Sermons on courage, Sermon Audio
Visualization and confidence building
See also: Visualization (psychology) and Self-efficacy
In psychology, visualization is the process of creating mental images or rehearsing movements in your mind. It's also known as mental imagery.[4]
Visualization is often used in sport psychology where the athlete mentally rehearses a perfect performance. Research indicates that people who engage in positive visualization tend to exhibit higher levels of self-confidence and they are more apt to pursue their goals with determination.[5][6] Visualization is also used for stress management and anxiety reduction.[7]
Overcoming and facing fears

Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.
- Facing and overcoming fears, HealthDirect
- Facing your fears, National Health Service
- 10 ways to fight your fears, National Health Service
- How to manage anxiety and fear, Mental Health Association
Bible verses on fear and anxiety
- Bible Verses About Fear, BibleStudyTools.com
- Bible verses on fear and anxiety
Overcoming a fear of social rejection
See also: Social rejection
- How to Overcome a Fear of Rejection
- 10 Tips for Overcoming Your Fear of Rejection, Healthline.com
- Deconstructing the Fear of Rejection: What Are We Really Afraid Of?, PsychCentral.com
- Feeling Rejected All the Time? This Is for You, PsychCentral
- How to Conquer the Fear of Rejection by Theo Tsaousides Ph.D.
- The Psychology Behind Fearing Rejection and How to Overcome It
- How To Overcome The Fear Of Rejection
Videos:
Ignoring unreasonable critics quotes
Courage quotes
“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.” - Sophocles
"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
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." - Aristotle
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
"What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred." - Herb Brooks
"Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." - Plato
"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior." - Carl von Clausewitz
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy." - Socrates
"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
"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - [[Ronald Reagan]
"Fate loves the fearless." - James Russell Lowell
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Few are born brave, but many are made so through care and exercise." - Flavius Vegetius Renat (an ancient Roman general).
Courage quotes web pages
- 65 Courage Quotes To Motivate And Inspire, Southern Living website
- Courage quotes, Goodreads.com
- Courage quotes, Brainquotes.com
Books
A Man or a Mouse by Sunday Adelaja. Golden Truth Publishing (August 15, 2018)
See also
- Fortitude
- Bravery
- Duty
- Mental toughness
- Psychological resilience
- Mindset
- Truth and danger
- Hero: Gallery of American Heroes
- Oath Keepers
- Machismo
- Atheism and cowardice
- Atheism and mental toughness
Opposite:
References
- ↑ MCCAIN: PUMP THIS! - Anne Coulter
- ↑ When Dissent is Stifled: The Same-Sex Marriage and Right-to-Treatment Debates
- ↑ How do you build courage?
- ↑ What is visualization in psychology?
- ↑ Harness the Power Within: With Effective Visualization Exercises
- ↑ 8 Visualization Strategies That Make Your Goals a Reality
- ↑ Definition, Benefits, and Techniques, Modern Recovery
- ↑ The Bible is the best selling book of all time, Guinness Book of Word Record