courage vs gumption

courage

noun
  • The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate. 

  • The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening. 

  • The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude. 

gumption

noun
  • Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative. 

  • Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness. 

  • Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm. 

How often have the words courage and gumption occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )