Motivational Quotes

Courage

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Thomson, James

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

King, Basil

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Petit-Senn, John

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Cicero

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Carnegie, Dale