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

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bible

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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 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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Plaut

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Omar

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Karr, Alphonse

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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.

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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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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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Akhenaton

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Shakespeare, William