Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Plutarch

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Horace

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Mark Twain

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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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Have the courage of your desire.