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

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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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

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

Greville, Lord

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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