Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Lawana Blackwell

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

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

Luce, Timothy

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bible

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

Voltaire

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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'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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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Ovid

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

Euripides

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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.