Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Shakespeare, William

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Tyger, Frank

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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!

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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