Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Lao-Tzu

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Mark Twain

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Harold Wilson

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

22.

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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mignon McLaughlin