Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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.

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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Johnson, John

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Euripides

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.