Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Petit-Senn, John

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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!

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

Churchill, Winston

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

13.

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

Adler, Freda

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

17.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Plutarch

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

36.

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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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 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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek