Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Basil

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Ovid

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

20.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Greville, Lord

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

33.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

41.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

43.

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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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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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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.