Motivational Quotes

Courage

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Plutarch

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

Twain, Mark

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

King, Basil

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

Collier, Jeremy

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.