Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

King, Basil

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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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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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Mark Twain

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth