Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Best Quotes about Courage

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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

Horace

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

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.

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

Bradley, Omar

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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

Mark Twain

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

E. M. Forster

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plutarch

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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 matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.