Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

'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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weininger, Ben

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

10.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

11.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

14.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Valois, Margaret

16.

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

17.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

18.

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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Bible

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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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

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

Carroll, Lewis

29.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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

34.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

38.

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

King, Basil

39.

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

Mark Twain

40.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

43.

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

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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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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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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