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 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

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Collier, Jeremy

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bible

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney