Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bernanos, Georges

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

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!

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.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Twain, Mark

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Bible

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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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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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'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

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mark Twain

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Churchill, Winston

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

E. M. Forster

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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