Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Basil

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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'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

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

Valois, Margaret

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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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