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

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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

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

Thomson, James

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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

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Thomas Fuller

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eco, Umberto

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow