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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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.

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Bible

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Cicero

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Kirby Larson