Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am more important than my problems.

- Ferrer, Jose

Best Quotes about Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Petit-Senn, John

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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?

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Cicero

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Euripides

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Greville, Lord

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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.

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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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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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

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank