Motivational Quotes

Courage

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Cicero

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Weininger, Ben

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

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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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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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

John Wayne

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