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

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Weininger, Ben

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

John Quincy Adams

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart