Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Weininger, Ben

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Smith, Sydney

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

41.

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

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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.

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

King, Basil

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Cicero

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas