COURAGE: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear… (Princeton)

No mention of there not being fear. No mention of there not being danger.

Courage means that there IS A COST…
Courage means that the end may be through PAINFUL MEANS…
Courage breeds more COURAGE…

Bernadette Devlin said that “Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” Winston Churchill said most effectively that “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

While we can all hope to avoid failure, there is a certain fortitude that courage provides even the most prolific loser.

I crystallize the concept of courage into the belief that where we are right now is simply a starting point for the rest of our lives, dreams, and ambitions…