Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

John Quincy Adams

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Young, Owen D.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Petit-Senn, John

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Euripides

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Luther, Martin

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Plaut

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Mark Twain