Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Kirby Larson

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ovid

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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May, Rollo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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