Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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.

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

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Eco, Umberto

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

John Wayne

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

Seneca

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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