Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

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 bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Churchill, Winston

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Greville, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Cicero

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett