Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jean Paul Richter

Best Quotes about Courage

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

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

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

10.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Weininger, Ben

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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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

30.

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.

31.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Seneca

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

36.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bombeck, Erma