Motivational Quotes

Courage

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Seneca

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

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

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

E. M. Forster

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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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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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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.

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

Luther, Martin

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Twain, Mark

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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