Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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