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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Greville, Lord

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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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 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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Horace

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.