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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Euripides

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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 strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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 who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Collier, Jeremy

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.