Motivational Quotes

Courage

Be larger than your task.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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

Voltaire

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

'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

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

Ovid

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-Tzu

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Adler, Freda

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

24.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Seneca

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

33.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Forbes, B. C.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo