Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Horace

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.