Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Jensen, Andrew

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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 strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Plaut

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Seneca

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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