Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kirby Larson

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.

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Horace

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Corra Harris

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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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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

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.