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

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.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradbury, Ray

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bradley, Omar

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Mark Twain

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

William Shakespeare

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hudson, William Henry