Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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'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

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Cicero

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.