Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Plaut

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Proverb

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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 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 in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Mark Twain

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Twain, Mark

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Greville, Lord

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

Worsham, James A.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

41.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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