Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Cicero

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Twain, Mark

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Bradley, Omar

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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