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

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

Smith, Sydney

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Plaut

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

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

Twain, Mark

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.