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

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

Churchill, Winston

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Plutarch

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Smith, Sydney

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid