Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Plutarch

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Adler, Freda

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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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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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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Disney, Walt

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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.