Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Petit-Senn, John

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.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

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.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Shakespeare, William

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

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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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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Battista, D.A.

24.

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greville, Lord

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Disney, Walt

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu