Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Luther, Martin

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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 certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Voltaire

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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