Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carnegie, Dale

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

10.

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

Sherman, William T.

11.

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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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

21.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

King, Basil

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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

28.

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

Disney, Walt

29.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

46.

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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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