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 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?

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jean Paul Richter

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kirby Larson

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip