Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Eco, Umberto

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Plutarch

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

Weininger, Ben

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Greville, Lord

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Twain, Mark

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Ovid

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.