Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Mark Twain

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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

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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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