Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.