Motivational Quotes

Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Menander of Athens

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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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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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Luce, Timothy

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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

King, Basil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von