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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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