Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Proverb

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Jean Paul Richter

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

King, Basil

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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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.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bradley, Omar

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