Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

King, Basil

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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'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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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.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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