Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Twain, Mark

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Euripides

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.