Motivational Quotes

Courage

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Courage

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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.

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.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Clare Booth Luce

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Seneca

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Mark Twain

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Euripides

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

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Battista, D.A.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John