Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

'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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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'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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Plaut

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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 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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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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 is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas