Motivational Quotes

Courage

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

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

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Carnegie, Dale

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Euripides

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Johnson, John

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre