Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Twain, Mark

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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 the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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 not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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 takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.