Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

William Shakespeare

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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 bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Kirby Larson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Euripides

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Plaut

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius