Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

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.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Corra Harris

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Euripides

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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 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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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Luther, Martin

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

Adler, Freda

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David