Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

32.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Plutarch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin