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

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

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.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Proverb

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

Kirby Larson

10.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

11.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

15.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

46.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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