Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.