Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Luce, Timothy

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.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Pollock, Channing

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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'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

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

29.

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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Adler, Freda

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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

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Mark Twain