Motivational Quotes

Courage

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Disney, Walt

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Seneca

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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 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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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 brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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 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