Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

- Collier, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

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

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Bible

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Mark Twain

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Weininger, Ben

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Omar

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Johnson, John

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu