Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Johnson, John

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Disney, Walt

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

Mark Twain

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.