Motivational Quotes

Courage

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

- James, William

Best Quotes about Courage

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Jeremy

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Greville, Lord

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.