Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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.

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bible

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bradley, Omar

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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.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Roosevelt, Theodore