Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Anouilh, Jean

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Thomas Fuller

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Adler, Freda

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Menander of Athens

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Johnson, John

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb