Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, John

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Corra Harris

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Menander of Athens

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Disney, Walt

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron