Word Finder - courage

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The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

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It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.

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The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.

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He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.

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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.

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To encourage.

I know you have the courage to talk to him.

His words put courage into every heart.

Maybe the last situation was what gave her the courage to speak up when the inheritance tension came back.

Finally she worked up the courage and turned on the computer.

One thing led to another and I finally worked up the courage to offer you the job.

Was he working up the courage to ask?

But no sooner had he left Bagration than his courage failed him.

She sipped her coffee reflectively and finally found the courage ask him a question that had been nagging her since his offer.

And you fight with the courage of ten men.

He had the courage to step forward and take chances, and the ability to persuade others to follow.

Did she have the courage to leave a cushion job and plush apartment?

For want of courage and energy see ii.

She'd found courage in a kindred soul.

I admire your courage.

He got up the courage and asked me out but when I begged off he acted so devastated I felt like a heel.

She met his angry gaze and mustered all the courage she could find.

That readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have a right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the courage of the troops you command justify us in expecting.

She gathered all the courage she could find and looked him in the eye.

The child was small and somewhat deformed, but of great courage and intelligence.

Renewed with courage born of desperation, she met his gaze steadily.

The king took courage to dismiss.

If Alex had given Brutus something to put him down, it was because he was afraid she didn't have the courage to make that decision.

Certain features - the high physical courage, the impulsive energy, the fervid imagination - stand out clear; beyond that disagreement begins.

He again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off....

When Katie brought the twins over one hot August day, Carmen finally found the courage to bring up the subject.

I was keenly surprised and disappointed years later to learn of their acts of persecution that make us tingle with shame, even while we glory in the courage and energy that gave us our "Country Beautiful."

But now Quinn's gone too, so Howie couldn't go back even if he got up his courage to do it!

Finally she dragged up the courage to broach the subject.

In 1815 he commanded the Dutch and Belgian contingents, and won high commendations for his courage and conduct at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at the latter of which he was wounded.

Her courage almost gave out at the idea of walking into the devil's personal hangout.

Her courage fled to see him framed in his doorway, as seductive by day as he was by night.

Sometimes it takes more courage to give a child up than it does to keep it when you don't want it.

It was a work of superb courage.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.

We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

When she finally found the courage to talk to Alex about the chair, she was surprised to find him unyielding in his decision to keep the chair.

She gazed up at him in the dim light, summoning the courage to address a painful subject.

They have no great physical courage.

They were quiet for a time, before Jackson summoned the courage to speak.

King Richard, though he had shown such courage and ready resources at Smithfield, was still only a lad of fourteen.

Nevertheless Magliani, who succeeded Seismit Doda, had neither the perspicacity nor the courage to resist the abolition of the grist tax.

He lived two hundred years ago, and was famous for his courage in defending his country.

But again the sense that she represented her father and her brother gave her courage, and she boldly began her speech.

Angry at him again, she realized she'd been trying to work up the courage to break up with him for weeks.

Her directness and pure courage-- there was no other word for her insubordinate address!-- amazed him.

Faith and courage were the only things that would get them through this dark hour.

He was quiet and she finally found the courage to look up at him.

Gibbon was eight-and-thirty when he entered parliament; and the obstacles which even at an earlier period he had not had courage to encounter were hardly likely to be vanquished then.

Unfortunately the new government proved wholly unable either to conduct the struggle with France successfully or to pluck up courage to make a humiliating peacethe only wise course before them.

His personal popularity, too, due partly to his youth and genial manners, was at this time greatly increased by the cool courage he had shown after the dastardly bomb attack made upon him and his young wife, during the wedding procession at Madrid, by the anarchist Matteo Morales.1 Whatever his qualities, the growing entanglement of parliamentary affairs was soon to put them to the test.