Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Sherman, William T.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Adler, Freda

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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

Plutarch

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.