Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Plutarch

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

E. M. Forster

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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

Bible

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Sherman, William T.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eco, Umberto

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Seneca

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas