Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Brown, Les

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

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

Plaut

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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