Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

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

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

King, Basil

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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.

25.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Kirby Larson

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

Valois, Margaret

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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.

32.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

39.

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

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney