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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Bible

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Lao-Tzu

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu