Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Courage

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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

King, Basil

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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

12.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Churchill, Winston

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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 capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Plaut

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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!

30.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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