Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Battista, D.A.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

12.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

13.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plutarch

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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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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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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.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Mark Twain

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

48.

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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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