Motivational Quotes

Courage

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Young, Owen D.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Weininger, Ben

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

15.

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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

18.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce