Motivational Quotes

Courage

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

William Shakespeare

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Horace

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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 is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

22.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Euripides

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Twain, Mark