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

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

Cicero

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weininger, Ben

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Forbes, B. C.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

36.

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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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

King, Basil

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Shakespeare, William