Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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!

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

'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

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

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Joel, Billy

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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

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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch