Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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 is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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'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 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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Disney, Walt

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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