Motivational Quotes

Courage

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

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.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Eco, Umberto

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plaut

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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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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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