Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Bible

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

Cicero

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Eco, Umberto

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

King, Basil

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Twain, Mark

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bradley, Omar

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Einstein, Albert