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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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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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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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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

King, Basil

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy