Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

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!

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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.

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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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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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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'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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Horace

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cicero

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

35.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

John Wayne

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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

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

Proverb

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor