Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Churchill, Winston

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bible

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

Bradley, Omar

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Harold Wilson

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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

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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

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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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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 finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.