Motivational Quotes

Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

- Smith, Donald

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Corra Harris

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Seneca

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

King, Basil

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Anouilh, Jean

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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