Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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.

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

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Joel, Billy

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy