Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bible

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

Thomson, James

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Euripides

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Horace

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

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Churchill, Winston

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von