Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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.

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Nin, Anais

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Bible

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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