Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Young, Owen D.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greville, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Plaut

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

Einstein, Albert

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

King, Basil

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Carnegie, Dale