Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Courage

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Luther, Martin

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Twain, Mark

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Proverb

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Corra Harris

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Jensen, Andrew

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.