courage

See:
  • courage of (one's) convictions
  • courage of one's convictions, have the
  • courage of one's convictions, to have the
  • Dutch courage
  • geneva courage
  • get enough courage up
  • get enough courage up (to do something)
  • get enough nerve up
  • get the courage up
  • get the courage up (to do something)
  • have the courage of (one's) convictions
  • have the courage of convictions
  • have the courage of your convictions
  • have/lack the courage of your convictions
  • lack the courage of (one's) convictions
  • liquid courage
  • pluck up (one's) courage
  • pluck up courage
  • pluck up one's courage
  • pluck up the courage to (do something)
  • pluck/screw/summon up courage
  • screw (one's) courage to the sticking place
  • screw up (one's) courage
  • screw up (one's) courage to the sticking place
  • screw up courage
  • screw up the courage to (do something)
  • screw up your courage
  • summon up (one's) courage
  • summon up the courage to (do something)
  • take (one's) courage in both hands
  • take your courage in both hands
References in classic literature
But I agree, he replied; for I suppose that you mean to exclude mere uninstructed courage, such as that of a wild beast or of a slave-- this, in your opinion, is not the courage which the law ordains, and ought to have another name.
Then I may infer courage to be such as you describe?
Why, yes, said I, you may, and if you add the words `of a citizen,' you will not be far wrong;--hereafter, if you like, we will carry the examination further, but at present we are we w seeking not for courage but justice; and for the purpose of our enquiry we have said enough.
Why, because temperance is unlike courage and wisdom, each of which resides in a part only, the one making the State wise and the other valiant; not so temperance, which extends to the whole, and runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces a harmony of the weaker and the stronger and the middle class, whether you suppose them to be stronger or weaker in wisdom or power or numbers or wealth, or anything else.
Because I think that this is the only virtue which remains in the State when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted; and, that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence of all of them, and while remaining in them is also their preservative; and we were saying that if the three were discovered by us, justice would be the fourth or remaining one.
Then the power of each individual in the State to do his own work appears to compete with the other political virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage.
"Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow," replied Oz.
Be satisfied, sir knight, with what you have done, which leaves nothing more to be said on the score of courage, and do not seek to tempt fortune a second time.
The enchanters may be able to rob me of good fortune, but of fortitude and courage they cannot."
"Viscount, your countenance, your goodness and your courage incline me toward you; my gratitude is already due.
Although research is lagging in providing a valid and reliable scale to measure moral courage, studies of this kind that lay the groundwork by identifying potential components aid our understanding of the importance of moral courage in both management and employees, for ethical and legal purposes.
"But it will take a lot of courage. You need a lot of courage to take the ball as well.
The book, which I first read decades ago and reread recently, concerns political courage irrespective of political party or philosophy.
But few victims would think "courage" a fitting quality to bestow on a burglar.
"Courage," too, has a cousin, "encourage." She spoke of how shows of kindness, wisdom and support - even small ones, even to strangers, even reaching back across dusty decades - can be powerful pulls and guides on our own stories in the here and now.