Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradley, Omar

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bradley, Omar

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

King, Basil

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, John

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Luther, Martin

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Plaut

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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