Sentence examples for definition of courage from inspiring English sources

This is the definition of courage.

I thought of Hemingway's definition of courage: grace under pressure.

The definition of courage had changed, he said, as had the concept of duty, the image of a firefighter and our belief in America.

There is no better definition of courage: it is acting not in the absence of fear, but in the face of fear.

His friend Victor Navasky described him as a man without illusions but someone who fit the definition of courage as "grace under pressure".

And I have thought of his definition of courage: not "a man with a gun in his hand", but "when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what".

Telling a story that questions easy definitions of courage and cowardice, Hayhurst achieves the unusual combination of sharp intelligence and jolting emotion.

As the war encroaches on the lives of these characters, they are each forced to examine their own values and personal definitions of courage.

He did plenty of things that took courage, and he was certainly undaunted, but his accomplishments had nothing to do with making war, building a corporation, scoring points on the athletic field, overcoming illness, injury or deprivation -- all of the definitions of courage we know best at the beginning of the 21st century.

What has become clear, in the actions of the Mayor during the past few months & in the history of John Doar, head of the N.Y.C. Board of Education, is a new definition of what courage is.

If I ever need a definition of sheer courage, it is those young RMPs accompanying the Afghan police on patrol through the fields and tracks of Helmand's "green zone", as the province's fertile central area is known.