'exercise courage' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to encourage someone to face a difficult situation or task with courage or bravery. For example: "No matter how difficult the situation is, remember to exercise courage and stay strong."
Active in the life of the city, this person exercises courage, moderation, liberality, and justice in the public arena.
With these actions President Obama is exercising courage and courage is the stuff of leadership.
The book is an exercise in courage.
It was a powerful exercise in courage and vulnerability for both of us.
The challenge for the surviving Governor Cuomo is to build on that legacy, that memory and that emotion that many of us felt on January 1: to reach for vision a little more, and settle for pragmatic deals a little less; to exercise the courage of his convictions, and be willing to lose the "good fight" every so often.
"White People" isn't simple-minded, and it exercises both courage and caution in trying to define the nature and causes of prejudice in its characters.
The West's tenuous hold on the rule of law and its fluid social fabric necessitated the settling of individual and group conflicts by the use of violence and the exercise of physical courage, and the moral dramas and dilemmas arising within this elemental, even primeval, framework lent themselves remarkably well to motion-picture treatment.
He returns to the memory of this and other adventures in the tropics – encompassing cerebral malaria and all manner of foulness – and finds that it compares favourably with his "small and shuffling life back home, where … there is no remaining moral space for the exercise of physical courage".
It is also plausible that the successful exercise of intellectual courage is also valuable for its own sake, and also constitutive of the best intellectual life.
Physical health and exercise, discipline, leadership, courage, goal-setting, dealing with adversity, coping with loss, overcoming failure, pushing mental and physical limits, listening and working with others, being a game changer, breaking gender norms, peacemaking..
When we fail to exercise the moral courage to challenge hate in all its permutations including Confederate symbols we are complicit in furthering the type of environment that leads to tragedy.
