Motivational Quotes

Courage

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

- Richter, Jean Paul

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

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Tyger, Frank

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Cicero

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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 we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Plutarch

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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

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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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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore