Motivational Quotes

Courage

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Proverb

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

37.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Horace

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

Bradley, Omar

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann