Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Voltaire

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 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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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

33.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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