Motivational Quotes

Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

19.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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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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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

39.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Plutarch

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Carnegie, Dale