Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Bradley, Omar

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

12.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

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

John Wayne

14.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

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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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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

King, Basil

25.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Plutarch

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

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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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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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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