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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Harold Wilson

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

Lao-Tzu

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Carnegie, Dale

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Jean Paul Richter

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Mark Twain

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Pollock, Channing

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

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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