Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

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

Weininger, Ben

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Twain, Mark

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Plutarch

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Greville, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek