Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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.

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Fuller

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Smith, Sydney

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Seneca

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

Weininger, Ben

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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