Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Courage

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Omar

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jensen, Andrew

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Seneca

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Churchill, Winston

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Cicero

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

Bombeck, Erma

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.