Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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!

10.

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

William Shakespeare

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

19.

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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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

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Voltaire

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

27.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.