courage
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
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.
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
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 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.
(obsolete) To encourage.
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