Motivational Quotes

Courage

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about Courage

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von