Motivational Quotes

Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Petit-Senn, John

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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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

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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 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