Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston