Motivational Quotes

Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

King, Basil

'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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

John Quincy Adams

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thomson, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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!

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Mark Twain

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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