Motivational Quotes

Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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?

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Twain, Mark

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Harold Wilson

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

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomson, James

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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

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

Weininger, Ben