Motivational Quotes

Courage

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

- Churchill, Winston

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.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Smith, Sydney

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson, Samuel

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Corra Harris

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

E. M. Forster

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De