Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

William Shakespeare

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pollock, Channing

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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 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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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'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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Luther, Martin

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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