Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Adler, Freda

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Anouilh, Jean

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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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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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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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 great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.