Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sherman, William T.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Lawana Blackwell

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Euripides

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Mark Twain

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

Luther, Martin

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

Seneca

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

Bombeck, Erma

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Disney, Walt

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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