The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger with confidence and resolution.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Being deeply loved by some one gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Confidence come naturally with success but success comes only to those who are confident.

Confidence does not come when you have all the solutions but it comes when you are ready to face all difficulties.

Courage does not flow from strength and authority, but is a state of mind.

Courage empowers.

Courage is a demonstration of the wisdom to know when to take a firm stand.

Courage is confronting fear.

Courage is not always a lions roar. It is also silence of an ant working and never giving up.

Courage is the knowledge of how to fear, what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is the quality that enables a person to face adversity without succumbing to fear.

Courage is the small voice inside which says, “I can”.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.                   – African Proverb

Doing what is right builds one’s self -confidence.

Fear is illusory   It can not live. Courage is eternal It can not die.

– Sri Swami Sivananda

Guts is a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, character and consideration.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly

– Oprah Winfrey

If we don’t stand for something, we will fall for anything.                  – Irene Dunne

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you I came to live out loud.                                                                                                        – Emile Zola

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It is courage and character that is the deadly combination for success. This is the difference between ordinary and extraordinary. Courage is not the absence of fear but the overcoming of fear. Character without courage is ineffective. To become courageous take in itiative and initiative.

It is easy to be brave from a distance.                                    – American Proverb

It is firmness of spirit that meets danger without fear.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because

we do not dare that they are difficult.                                                      – Seneca

It only takes on ounce of courage to remove a ton of distress. – Brahma Kumaris

It’s important that people know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for. – Mary Waldrop

Lack of courage destroys our ability to act.

Man can not discover the new oceans unless he has the courage to lose the sight of the shore.

Men of principles are bold but not all bold people are men of principle.

 

Promotion

A young executive with poor self-esteem was promoted but he couldn’t reconcile himself to his new office and position. There was a knock at his door. To show how important and busy he was, he picked up the phone and then asked the visitor to come in. As the man waited for the executive, the executive kept talking on the phone, nodding and saying, “No problem, I can handle that.” After a few minutes he hung up and asked the visitor what he could do for him. The man replied, “Sir, I’m here to connect your phone.”

Moral of the story:

The height of confidence decides the height of position. 

No guts, no glory.

Not opposing the wrong is actually supporting the wrong.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.                            – Vittorio Alferi

One individual with a backbone will accomplish more than a hundred men with a wishbone.

Only after giving proper thought to consequences, the courage to act can give desired results.                                                                           – Hemant C. Lodha

People who lack conviction take the middle of the road (compromise) and guess what happens in the middle of the road? They get run over.

People without conviction do not take a stand. They go along to get along because they lack confidence and courage. Not opposing the wrong is actually supporting the wrong.

Person who risks nothing – does nothing – has nothing – is nothing.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.                               – Harper Lee

Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.       – Richard Bach

Success involves taking calculated risks. Responsible risk taking is based on knowledge, training, careful study, confidence and competence which give a person the courage to act while facing fear.

The ability to believe in yourself when everyone has given up on you is a sigh of courage.

The best way to behave when crisis strikes is to be brave.      – Brahma Kumaris

The dangerous people are not ones who openly disagree with you but the ones who disagree and are too cowardly to let you know.

The courage and ability to take decisions puts a person in the driver’s seat. If you do not take control of your future, your future is automatically determined by other people’s decisions.

The difference between getting somewhere and reaching nowhere in life is courage.

The stories of past courage can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage it self. For this each man must look into his own soul.                                                                  – John F. Kennedy

To gain, we must risk. To learn to walk, we must risk falling over and getting hurt. To make a dollar, we must risk losing it, and the people who make the most, risk the most.

To know how to refuse is as important as to know how to consent.

Umbrella can not stop rain but it still protects you. Confidence may not bring success but gives courage to face challenges.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

 

The Story of Huh Saeng

In a lowly thatched cottage in the Namsan Valley there lived a poor couple, Mr. and Mrs. Huh Saeng. The husband confined himself for seven years and only read books in his cold room One day his wife, all in tears, said to him: “Look here, my good man! What is the use of all your book reading? I have spent my youth in washing and sewing for other people and yet I have no spare jacket or skirt to wear and I have had no food to eat during the past three days. I am hungry and cold. I can stand it no more!”

Hearing these words, the middle-aged scholar closed his book… rose to his feet and.. without saying another word, he went out of the door,… Arriving in the heart of the city, he stopped a passing gentleman. “Hello, my friend! Who is the richest man in town?” “Poor countryman! Don’t you know Byonssi, the millionaire? His glittering tile-roofed house pierced by twelve gates is just over there.” Huh Saeng bent his steps to the rich man’s house.

Having entered the big gate, he flung the guest-room door open and address.ed the host: “I need 10,000 yang as capital for my commercial business and I want you to lend me the money.” “Alright, sir.

Where shall I send the money?” “To the Ansong Market in care of acommission merchant.” “Very well, sir. I will draw on Kim, who does the biggest commission business in the Ansong Market. You’ll get the money there. “Good-bye, sir.”

When Huh Saeng was gone, all the other guests in the room asked Byonssi why he gave so much money to a beggar like stranger whose family name was unknown to him. But the rich man replied with a triumphant face: “Even though he was in ragged clothes, he spoke clearly to the point without betraying shame or inferiority, unlike common people who want to borrow money for a bad debt. Such a man

as he is either mad or self- confident in doing business. But judging from his dauntless eyes and booming voice he is a man, an uncommon man with a superhuman brain, worthy of my trust. I know money and I know men. Money often makes a man small, but a man like him makes big money. I am only glad to have helped a big man do big business.”

BEHIND THE SCENES OF ROYAL PALACES IN KOREA, HA TAE-HUNG 1983

Moral of the story:

Courage and confidence builds trust worthiness.

Make strong your will,

don’t fall after defeat,

stand up at once,

complete your work with courage,

don’t go away from the field,

your zeal and courage,

will bring a new success,

touch the blue sky,

don’t loose courage

Weed

A nettle stung a boy playing in the fields. He ran home to his mother, telling her that he had but touched that nasty weed, and it had stung him. “It was just your touching it, my boy,” said the mother, “that caused it to sting you; the next time you meddle with a nettle, grasp it tightly, and it will do you no hurt.” Do boldly what you do at all.

FABLE, AESOR SIXTY CENTURY B. C.

Moral of the story:

Do boldly what ever you do.