Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

'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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Ovid

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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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.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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