Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

18.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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 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

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster