Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Pollock, Channing

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Twain, Mark

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Disney, Walt

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Mark Twain

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce