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

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

Bible

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

20.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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!

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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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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.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les