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

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Battista, D.A.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Bradley, Omar

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Smith, Sydney

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.