Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

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.

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

Weininger, Ben

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Twain, Mark

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Greville, Lord

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Battista, D.A.

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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 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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Adler, Freda

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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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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bradley, Omar

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