There is loud courage and quiet courage. The loud kind can be spectacular, but the quiet kind is more significant.

“True honesty requires courage, character, and integrity.
(It is) a very expensive gift; don’t expect it from cheap people.”
— Frank Caprio, municipal court judge

I’m starting to think the most important aspect of change is courage. Of my Big Three elements for successful counseling—courage, commitment, and honesty—courage must come first, not necessarily in importance but in time. It’s courage that you need to get started and, when you need to decide but don’t know what to do. It’s courage that you need to make a change when you’re not sure what will result…

True courage takes a calm, dispassionate state of mind; it is entirely different from being heroic. When important things are happening quickly you cannot be distracted by extraneous thoughts. The reward of surviving a life-threatening gauntlet is learning to find and maintain a complete, balanced, and unbiased focus…

It is my hope that many of us can become courageous just by setting our minds to it, but I have no real evidence of this. The courageous people I known have been battle hardened. The battles have been situations of sacrifice, risk, and responsibility. The cowards I’ve known never experienced conflict and have developed evasion as a gymnastic skill…

Dragons

Soldiers

Responsibility is Not Heroic

Courage Sticks, Cowardice Slips

My Evidence, Your Evidence

Emotional Dysregulation

Is There a Middle Ground?

Paths to Courage

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